| The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Contributor(s): Baptist, Edward E. (Author), Butler, Ron (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1483030695 ISBN-13: 9781483030692 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $38.21 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: September 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 973.7 |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 5.2" W x 5.9" (0.95 lbs) |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped our country politically, morally, and most of all, economically. Until the Civil War, our chief form of innovation was slavery. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from their slaves, giving the country a virtual monopoly on the production of cotton, a key raw material of the Industrial Revolution.As Baptist argues, this frenzy of speculation and economic expansion transformed the United States into a modern capitalist nation. Based on thousands of slave narratives and plantation records, The Half Has Never Been Told offers not only a radical revision of the history of slavery but a disturbing new understanding of the origins of American power that compels listeners to reckon with the violence and subjugation at the root of American supremacy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baptist, Edward E.: - Edward E. Baptist is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South, he lives in Ithaca, New York. Butler, Ron: -Ron Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. Ron works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. In his spare time, he impersonates the president while playing the ukulele. |