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

Baptist, Edward E., (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465002962 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 046500296X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-486) and index.
Formatted 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.
Subject: Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > Economic aspects > United States > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Bethlehem Main Library 306.362 (Text) 33062008403843 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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