The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.362/BAPTIST,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
DESCRIPTION
xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780465002962 (hardcover : alk. paper), 046500296X (hardcover : alk. paper), 9780465002962 40023995367
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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