| ISBN |
9780465002962 (hardcover) |
| 046500296X (hardcover) |
| Author |
Baptist, Edward E. author. |
| Title |
The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York, NY Basic Books, [2014] |
| ©2014. |
| Pagination etc. |
xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents note |
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. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions |
| Slavery -- United States -- History |
| Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History |
| African Americans -- Social conditions -- History |
| Shelf Location |
306.3 BAPT |
