The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Recommended by Cory Ondrejka, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #11 in Investment Banking, Ranked #11 in African American History — see more rankings.
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.
As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton... more
As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton... more
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Cory Ondrejka VP of Engineering/FacebookIt's a heart-wrenching but eye-opening look at the safe ways America looks back at slavery and its impact on modern capitalism. During an election cycle focused on populism and anger, this is a book every American should read. (Source)
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The Half Has Never Been Told is ranked in the following categories:
- #100 in African History
- #48 in Bank
- #48 in Banking
- #26 in Capitalism
- #25 in Economic History
- #70 in Human Resources
- #16 in Slavery
- #94 in US History
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