The Half Has Never Been Told. Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Basic Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 560 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institutionthe nations original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from Americas 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.

ISBN: 9780465049660