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

Name: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Author: Edward E. Baptist
ISBN: 9780465044702

Edward E. Baptist

498 pages

Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Jan 2014

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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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