The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
African American Studies
Ethnic Studies
Capitalism
Social history
Slavery
Economic aspects
African Americans
New York Times bestseller
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Social conditions
United States
History
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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