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Author Baptist, Edward E.

Title The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1619761~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  973.0496073 BAP    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  973.0496073 BAP    RECENTLY RETURNED
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Description xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-486) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9780465002962 (hardcover : alk. paper)
046500296X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780465049660 (paperback)
Standard No. 40023995367
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