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Visit Link : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/0465049664 Book Synopsis : Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans 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&nbspthe words of politicians and&nbspentrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

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Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans 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&nbspthe words of politicians and&nbspentrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

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

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the

2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy

was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans 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&nbspthewords of politicians and&nbspentepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a

radical new interpretation of American history.

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