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

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.

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This is what half of America refuses to hear! submitted by topraks on June 5, 2015, 7:28pm This is the most important scholarly work published in American history in the last two decades. The author has beautifully written a non-fiction masterpiece that reads like a novel. This page turner should be a required reading in colleges and even high schools. I congratulate the author for the monumental work.

*This is the single most important book in outlining the global impact of slavery

*This is how the US became a superpower from the bloodied backs of millions of stolen people.

How slavery built capitalism in this country, creating what still remains, an industrial north and agrarian south, is fascinating.

Recognizing how the forced labor of Africans and their descendants helped fuel what would become modern world economy is mind blowing.

Until America acknowledges this historical record and fully embraces the reality that it's current status as the world's most powerful economy is irrefutably linked to millions of enslaved people whose bodies were sacrificed in service to that economy, issues of racial justice, economic inequality and racial distrust will forever plaque our society.