The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America by Daniel Platt

The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America

Daniel Platt

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Daniel Platt shows how, in the wake of the Civil War, a range of advocates drew potent analogies between slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. He traces the ways those analogies were use...

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