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The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baptist, Edward E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- History.
- Slavery--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions--History.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Slavery and the making of American capitalism
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The heart : 1937
- Feet : 1783-1810
- Heads : 1791-1815
- Right hand : 1815-1819
- Left hand : 1805-1861
- Tongues : 1819-1824
- Breath : 1824-1835
- Seed : 1829-1837
- Blood : 1836-1844
- Backs : 1839-1850
- Arms : 1850-1861
- The corpse : 1861-1937.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-486) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465002962
- 046500296X
- OCLC:
- 881560332
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