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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist
A different point of view
I’ve read several books on slavery in America but this one took me to a different place. How slavery built capitalism in this country, creating what still remains, an industrial north and agrarian south, is fascinating.
Recognizing how the forced labor of Africans and their descendants helped fuel what would become our modern world economic is mind blowing.
I now see the bubbling frustrations of white men in America (particularly the south) in a new light. Sharing the wealth was never the intended outcome, and in trying to hang on to it, they eventually lost it all.
Please, read this book.
I’ve read several books on slavery in America but this one took me to a different place. How slavery built capitalism in this country, creating what still remains, an industrial north and agrarian south, is fascinating.
Recognizing how the forced labor of Africans and their descendants helped fuel what would become our modern world economic is mind blowing.
I now see the bubbling frustrations of white men in America (particularly the south) in a new light. Sharing the wealth was never the intended outcome, and in trying to hang on to it, they eventually lost it all.
Please, read this book.