Index index present LC call number E441 LC item number. The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism by Baptist, Edward E., author. Language eng Summary Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States Cataloging source DLC Baptist, Edward E Dewey number 306.3/620973 Illustrations

African Americans - Social conditions | History.

Slavery - Economic aspects - United States - History.

BAPTIST is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. Baptist Title variation Slavery and the making of American capitalism Creator Television Broadcast: February 1, 2015EDWARD E. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now. 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.Label The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism Title The half has never been told Title remainder slavery and the making of American capitalism Statement of responsibility Edward E. : Half Has Never Been Told (9780465049660) by Baptist, Edward E.

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

But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansĪmericans 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. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Edward E.

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

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