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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
4.0
An economic history of the US, The Half Has Never Been told traces primary sources that have been conveniently overlooked in order to perpetuate "states rights" narratives that seek to undersell the impact of enslavement of human beings on American Capitalism. This book focuses on all the areas that white supremacy has attempted to silence or ignore in regards to the torture of enslavement and the rebellions, insubordination, and resilience that continuously took place (unsurprisingly, white supremacy continuously tried to cover up and hide these narratives) while economically tracking the worldwide impact on American exported cotton and how the cotton industry through enslaved labor propelled the US economy into what it is today.
There is some talk of how unhelpful white abolitionists were in regards to countering this narrative, but I think there could have been more (See Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi for further details on this), but overall the economic and primary source focus of enslavement brings a humanizing perspective to this subject matter.
This book reminds me of my trip to the Museum of African American Culture and History and how the Black perspective of US history is extremely different than the perpetuated white supremacist narratives that inundate textbooks.
There is some talk of how unhelpful white abolitionists were in regards to countering this narrative, but I think there could have been more (See Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi for further details on this), but overall the economic and primary source focus of enslavement brings a humanizing perspective to this subject matter.
This book reminds me of my trip to the Museum of African American Culture and History and how the Black perspective of US history is extremely different than the perpetuated white supremacist narratives that inundate textbooks.