Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence

by Bruce H. Mann

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Mann's treatise on the history of debt in the colonial United States covers the moral attitudes towards debt in early America--it was seen as sinful--and how society dealt with the problem. He also discusses the changes brought about by the growing commercial economy and the fight for independence, at a time when debtor's prison was seen as the only solution.