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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 prizewinning 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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Social conditions, African Americans, Economic aspects, Slavery, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE, African American Studies, United States, Social History, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY, Capitalism, Slavery, united states, history, African americans, social conditions, African americans, history, nyt:race-and-civil-rights=2014-12-07, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / SlaveryEdition | Availability |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Oct 25, 2016, Basic Books
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Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
2016, Basic Books
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The half has never been told: slavery and the making of American capitalism
2014, Basic Books
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Sep 09, 2014, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks
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