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The Half Has Never Been Told

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Half Has Never Been Told

By Edward E. Baptist

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About the book

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 E. 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 fr...Show more

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9780465049660

Publisher

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Published year

2016

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1

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The Half Has Never Been Told

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