Author: Edward E. Baptist
Nominated By : Audrey Tandon
non-fiction
Review From:
New York Times
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 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.
Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and
the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has
Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It
forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American
supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about
slavery's end and created a culture that sustains America's deepest dreams
of freedom.
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