| 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: 1668600757 ISBN-13: 9781668600757 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: September 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.9" H x 6.1" W x 5.6" (0.70 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |