The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism
Edward E. Baptist (Author)
"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
eBook, English, 2014
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, 2014