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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 Hardcover - 2014 - 1st Edition

by Edward E. Baptist


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

Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize

A groundbreaking 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 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.

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  • Title The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
  • Author Edward E. Baptist
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2014-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465002962 / 046500296X
  • Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014012546
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.362

About the author

Edward E. Baptist is a professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South, he lives in Ithaca, New York.
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