A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize ...

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is a book by Edward E. Baptist published in 2014 by Basic Books.

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize ...

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize ...

Oct 3, 2014 · A historian argues that the slave states were not a world apart but were crucial to American development.

Just a remarkable work of history. Beautifully structured and written. Bold, heartbreaking, a genuinely moving book that captures the humanity of the enslaved ...

Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been ...

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Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been ...

"Baptist has a knack for explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose.... The Half Has Never Been Told's underlying argument is persuasive."—New York ...