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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By Baptist, Edward E.
- ISBN
- 9780465002962 9780465044702
- Publisher
- Basic: Perseus
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Starred Review on August 1, 2014 | Social Sciences
Baptist (Creating an Old South) has written a book that truly deepens and broadens our understanding of slavery. Through an incredible amount of detail and the use of an array of primary sources, the author argues that the South's use of slave labor in cotton production was the primary factor in the United States becoming a leading modern industrial nation. He tells his story more or less chronologica...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
