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The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Paperback • 2014 • Norwegian Bokmål

The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

By Edward E. Baptist

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About the book

Americans tend to assume that modern historiography has produced a full and complete understanding of slavery in the United States, as a shameful pre-modern institution, existing in isolation from America's later success. But while we have long since rejected the idealistic depiction of happy slaves and paternalistic masters, we have not yet begun to grapple with the full extent of slavery's horrors?or its link to the expansion of the country, the political battles that caused the Civil War, or ...Show more

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9780465002962

Publisher

New York : Basic Books

Published year

2014

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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Paperback

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