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 Americaβs later success. But while we have long since rejected the idealistic depiction of happy slaves
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
β 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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