The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist

Book Overview

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465049664
• ISBN13: 9780465049660
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"