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In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist argues that the expansion of slavery during the first eight decades after American independence drove the United States toward a modern industrial and capitalist economy. He traces the South’s transformation from a small tobacco‑plantation region into a continent‑wide cotton empire, using a wide array of sources—including intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the writings of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves—to present a radical new interpretation of American history.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Edward E. Baptist
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