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Title The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.
Author Baptist, Edward E., author.
Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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 Hiawassee  306.362 BAP    Check Shelves
 Winter Garden  306.362 BAP    Checked Out
Description xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-486) and index.
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.
Contents 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 -- History.
ocls african american adult books
Added Title Slavery and the making of American capitalism
ISBN 9780465002962 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $35.00
046500296X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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