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Cover of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

✍ Scribed by Baptist, Edward E


Book ID
108599920
Publisher
Basic Books
Tongue
English
Weight
5 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780465044702

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Americans tend to assume that modern historiography has produced a full and complete understanding of slavery in the United States, as a shameful pre-modern institution, existing in isolation from America’s later success. But while we have long since rejected the idealistic depiction of happy slaves

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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institutionβ€”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 Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been

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At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In *Between Slavery and Capitalism*, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the l