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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist
The most compelling work of history I've read. Maybe ever. The economy Americans live in was created on the backs of slaves torn from their homeland. This book details specifically how that economy was built. Each chapter focuses on a part of the body--the hands, the blood, the breath--and explains in painful anecdotes and chilling statistics how capitalism in its American form came to dominate the poor, the disenfranchised, and, even, the wealthiest among us. Essential reading. So so so so so so so so so good.