{"product_id":"the-half-has-never-been-told","title":"The Half Has Never Been Told","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Half Has Never Been Told\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEdward E Baptist\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780465049660\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBasic Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e560\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmericans 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Half Has Never Been Told\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, \u003ci\u003eThe Half Has Never Been Told\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical new interpretation of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"The Half Has Never Been Told | Edward E Baptist | Paperback | 9780465049660 | New | American History 1307082","offer_id":48162189115544,"sku":"1307082","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/712RDdgdv5L.jpg?v=1771864755","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-half-has-never-been-told","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}