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 Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolut...
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; 1 edition (September 9, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 046500296X
ISBN-13: 978-0465002962
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 279131
Format: PDF ePub TXT book
reviews:The content of the first 20-30 pages gave the impression that the book had been mistitled. However, by page 120 I had become convinced that the author had provided an vital resources in in understanding how the dots connected between slavery~cotton...
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