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ISBN-10: 0465049664
ISBN-13: 9780465049660
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 10/25/2016
Dimensions: 9.10" L, 6.10" W, 1.70" H

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

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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize

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.

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"Baptist has a knack for explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose.... The Half Has Never Been Told's underlying argument is persuasive."–New York Times Book Review
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ISBN-10: 0465049664
ISBN-13: 9780465049660
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 10/25/2016
Dimensions: 9.10" L, 6.10" W, 1.70" H
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