![]() The War Department and Post Office eased the passage by establishing roads, however rude and rutted, the former pressuring and removing Native Americans who stood in the way. Rives drove bound Americans across the Blue Ridge Mountains, through the Tennessee Valley, and into a Mississippi River slave market in 1818, he relied on federal protections from foreign competition. The business of slavery benefited largely from a federal framework and policies designed to give enslavers advantages. ![]() ![]() Enslavers overcame a constellation of challenges as they transported captives across American land- and seascapes, entered networks of credit, and situated their businesses in the larger commercial environment. ![]() The slavery business was a deep entrepreneurial well, and slavery’s capitalism was shaped by innovators who used advances in technology as part of business strategies, their ‘nimbleness a necessity when serving a rapidly transforming zone of commercial agriculture and industries reliant on slavery. ![]()
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