The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E Baptist
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E Baptist holds a exceptional rating of 4.80 out of 5, based on 2.3K reader ratings. First published in 2014. The book spans 264 pages.
About The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Author | Edward E Baptist |
| Published | 2014 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Kindle Price | $15.99 |
| Genres | Non-Fiction |
| Average Rating | 4.80 / 5.00 |
| Total Ratings | 2,323 |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism was written by Edward E Baptist. It was first published in 2014.
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