The half has never been told [electronic resource] : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist ; designed by Timm Bryson.

The half has never been told [electronic resource] : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist ; designed by Timm Bryson.

9780465044702 electronic book
9780465002962 hardcover

New York : Basic Books, 2014.

©2014

English

1 online resource (xxvii, 498 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables

E441 .B337 2014eb

306.3/620973

"Americans tend to assume that modern historiography has produced a full and complete understanding of slavery in the United States, as a shameful pre-modern institution, existing in isolation from America's later success. But while we have long since rejected the idealistic depiction of happy slaves and paternalistic masters, we have not yet begun to grapple with the full extent of slavery's horrors, or its link to the expansion of the country, the political battles that caused the Civil War, or the growth of our modern capitalist economy."--Provided by publisher.

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