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Author:

Baptist, Edward E. author.

Title:

The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publisher:

Basic Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxix, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Slavery--United States--History.
Slavery--History.--United States--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
HISTORY--Social History.
HISTORY--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--African American Studies.--African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Slavery.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Slavery.
Slavery--Economic aspects.
United States.
History.

Notes:

"Afterword to the paperback edition copyright ©2016 Edward E. Baptist."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- Afterword: the corpse 1861-1937.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0465049664 (pbk.) :
9780465049660 (pbk.) :

LCCN:

2017302300

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)