The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist ; designed by Timm Bryson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baptist, Edward E., author.

Contributor:

Bryson, Timm, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 498 p.)

Other Title:

Slavery and the making of American capitalism

Place of Publication:

2014.

New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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..As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Nev

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Heart, 1937; 1. Feet, 1783-1810; 2. Heads, 1791-1815; 3. Right Hand, 1815-1819; 4. Left Hand, 1805-1861; 5. Tongues, 1819-1824; 6. Breath, 1824-1835; 7. Seed, 1829-1837; 8. Blood, 1836-1844; 9. Backs, 1839-1850; 10. Arms, 1850-1861; Afterword: The Corpse, 1861-1937; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-486) and index.

ISBN:

0-465-09768-5

0-465-04966-4

1-5416-9841-X

0-465-04470-0

OCLC:

973353533

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32823 hdl