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Edward E. Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism .

  • Van Cleve G
The American Historical Review (2015) 120(4) 1434-1436
DOI: 10.1093/ahr/120.4.1434
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Paperback edition. "Afterword to the paperback edition copyright ©2016 Edward E. Baptist."--Title page verso. 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. 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 -- Afterword: the corpse 1861-1937.

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Van Cleve, G. W. (2015). Edward E. Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . The American Historical Review, 120(4), 1434–1436. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.4.1434

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