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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Contributor(s): Baptist, Edward E. (Author)

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ISBN: 0465049664     ISBN-13: 9780465049660
Publisher: Basic Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Social Science | Slavery
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 306.362
LCCN: 2017302300
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.30 lbs) 560 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product
 
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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves

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 intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

 
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