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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism
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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
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 historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
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he echoes the call of black intellectuals like me for a re-examination of the language associated with ...
Derived From Web , May 15, 2022
Baptist's work is significant only because he carefully and dispassionately details the intricacies of the economic slave trade, vis a vis the industries it made possible, the physical and sexual abuse and exploitation, the systematic and deliberate destruction of family, language and community. Moreover, he echoes the call of black intellectuals like me for a re-examination of the language associated with trade. It is a dense, but vivid tome, and I learned a lot.
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Should be required reading for graduate school for study in either Economics; American History; MBA; Afr. American History
Derived From Web , May 15, 2022
By page 120, however, I had become convinced that the author had provided vital resources in understanding how the dots connected between slaverycottonmanifest destinycapitalismthe brutal nature of this particular institution. I read heavily on the subject of slavery and found this to be the best treatment to date the connection between slavery and America's rise to become a 20th century superpower. This book was so good that I bought and listened to it on CD after reading the print copy.
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Much, much more of this should be in Americans' high school history texts.
Derived From Web , May 15, 2022
Well arranged and ingeniously written. Good balance in incorporating individual stories to illustrate the Baptist systems clearly. Just a little long, but that's common among books of this type. Here in the United States, students should understand that slavery influenced both the southern and the northern U.S. economy and the evidence-based argument that this is the case is the most important contribution of this book. Here there is also lots of information about different phases of U.S. slavery in terms of geography, increasing the brutality of treatment and the conduct of slave trade on U.S. soil -- it was not the same from 1600 to 1865 or even from 1835 to 1850. Lastly, Baptist is not afraid to call the argument of the states as garbage.
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An excellent study of the rise of the modern American economic ...
Derived From Web , May 15, 2022
An excellent study of the rise of the modern American economic system, as it developed in the 19th century. Well-researched and documented The placing of slavery and the production of cotton in the context of the broad developments of American history allows an understanding of how the building of this country rests on the shoulders of African American people.
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Amazing account of American history
Derived From Web , Nov 10, 2021
In a day and time where the presentation of American history is left void, this book provides an amazing account of slavery in the United States and how it has influenced American capitalism and American economic power.
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A must-read book to better understand our "real" history
Derived From Web , Jun 21, 2018
A must-read book to better understand our real history, not the myths taught in the schools for generations.
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Must read for anyone who wants to understand how slavery shaped the USA
Derived From Web , Nov 20, 2017
Fascinating reading that brought a different, deeper understanding of our country's history and contradictions. It reinforces the notion of powerful writing history in the image of their world view.
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Highly informative analysis of slavery and it's contribution to the ...
Derived From Web , Jan 5, 2017
Highly informative analysis of slavery and it's contribution to the economic development of the US industry. A very unique perspective on American history is composing government relationships to Native Americans, Europe and African people.
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