A review by 8little_paws
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal

4.0

This book is exactly what it sounds like--a historical business book that goes into the bookkeeping and business analytics of plantations holding slaves. It details the types of ledgers used to track daily cotton production and how each slave was valued and recorded on the balance sheet. It compares these metrics to non slaveholding industries of the same time period and then tracks how bookkeeping changed after emancipation. Interesting stuff if you've got a background in basic accounting but if you lack that I'd skip this book.