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The Half Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist

2014 526 pages eng

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 E. Baptist reveals in the prizewinning *Th…

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