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

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By (author): Edward E. Baptist

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. Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Bloomberg View Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014 Daily Beast Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 562g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780465049660

About Edward E. Baptist

Edward E. Baptist is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South he lives in Ithaca New York.

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