The Half Has Never Been Told
The Half Has Never Been Told
Author : Edward E. Baptist
Publisher : Hachette Book Group USA
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...
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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.>
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.>