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The classic, “gripping” (
New York Times
) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize
“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —
NPR Books
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 the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The
Half Has Never Been Told
offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
New York Times
) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize
“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —
NPR Books
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 the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The
Half Has Never Been Told
offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
The classic, “gripping” (
New York Times
) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize
“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —
NPR Books
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 the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The
Half Has Never Been Told
offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
New York Times
) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize
“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —
NPR Books
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 the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The
Half Has Never Been Told
offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
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