A review by k80uva
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

5.0

Eloquent, horrifying, and complex, I think this may be the new go-to book if you want to read about the history of slavery. Baptist does a terrific job of weaving large stories out of the bits and pieces of testimony we have from former slaves. This book does a truly heroic job of combining a vast economic history with the story of the legal and philosophical changes that supported slavery, tying it to expansion and national politics and, most impressively, never losing sight of the human scale, and the human toll of slavery.