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

By Edward E. Baptist

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A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves

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. 

[The author also describes the use of torture, i.e., whipping, to keep cotton harvest rates as high as humanly possible. At the end of the long workday, sun-up to sundown, an enslaved person's harvest was weighed, and one would be whipped for failing to make quota. Horrible.]

ISBN

9780465049660

Binding

Trade Paperback

Publication Date

October 25th, 2016

Publisher

BASIC BOOKS

Pages

560

Length

9.1 IN

Width

6.1 IN

Depth

1.7 IN

Illustration

Yes

Author

Edward E. Baptist

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