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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Baptist, Edward E.

Paperback

Black American StudiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0465049664
ISBN13: 9780465049660
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Oct 25 2016
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.

Gripping. --New York Times

A stinging indictment of slavery. --NPR Books?

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.

In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians

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