Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America.
From the wealthy merchant to the backwoods farmer, Mann.
Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.
In Republic of Debtors , Bruce H.
By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned.
Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America