Name: The Half Has Never Been Told
ISBN: 9780465002962

Edward E. Baptist

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.

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

The Half Has Never Been Told

Ruby Huber

OK UM I don't know what I can say, this was an excellent book. I learned a lot, especially about how much I don't understand commerce. I don't want to say I wasn't smart enough to understand this because I don't believe that, but it was hard to grasp. Perhaps a little bit from way Baptist tried to weave FACTS and reconstructed stories together? Sometimes I just got a little lost. But yeah capitalism is BAD, the west used the lives and bodies and souls of Black people to create the modern world and for what!!!! For hundreds of thousands to die during a pandemic while their "leaders" and "government" do nothing or worse, profit from it?!!!?!?!?

Aaron

✨Tyler ✨

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

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