Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr 
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America [PDF ebook] 
The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1852

Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government’s and the nation’s credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the territories along the lower Mississippi River.