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Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Title: Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Author: Edward E Baptist
ISBN: 9780465049660
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 560
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: The classic, "gripping" (New York Times) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize "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.
Author: Edward E Baptist
ISBN: 9780465049660
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 560
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: The classic, "gripping" (New York Times) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize "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.
