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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

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.

Bloomberg View Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014
Daily Beast Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize

Country	USA
Author	Edward E. Baptist
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780465097685
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Basic Books
Manufacturer	Basic Books
NumberOfPages	559
PublicationDate	2016-10-25
Publisher	Basic Books
ReleaseDate	2016-10-25
Studio	Basic Books

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