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

Edward E. Baptist

498 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 historia...

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