Book : Half Has Never Been Told - Baptist, Edward E.

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Review “Abolitionists were contemptuous of such self-serving nonsense, but they too tended to see slavery as an economically inefficient, and morally reprehensible, hangover from the premodern past… In ‘The Half Has Never Been Told,’ Edward E. Baptist takes passionate issue with such assumptions. He asserts that slavery was neither inherently inefficient nor a counterpoint to capitalism. Rather, he says, it was woven inextricably into the transnational fabric of early 19th-century capitalism…Baptist writes with verve and a good eye for the dramatic…” Wall Street JournalBaptist has a knack for explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose.... The Half Has Never Been Tolds underlying argument is persuasive. New York Times Book ReviewThe overwhelming power of the stories that Baptist recounts, and the plantation-level statistics hes compiled, give his book the power of truth and revelation. Los Angeles TimesIt taught me so much about slavery and how slavery enabled America to become America. Every time I left my house after reading, I saw the world differently. I saw the legacy of human misery underpinning it all. Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, SingBaptist has a fleet, persuasive take on the materialist underpinnings of the peculiar institution. Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel BoysBy far the finest account of the deep interplay of the slave trade...and the development of the U.S. economy. Stephen L. CarterYou cannot understand the economy of the U.S. - or even of the world -without an understanding of how its development was driven by 19th century slavery. This book gives you that, in a stunningly readable, heartbreaking form. Genius. Mark Bittman, author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk“New books like ‘Empire of Cotton’ and ‘The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism’ by Edward Baptist offer gripping and more nuanced stories of economic history.” Vikas Bajaj, New York TimesThoughtful, unsettling.... Baptist turns the long-accepted argument that slavery was economically inefficient on its head, and argues that it was an integral part of Americas economic rise. Daily Beast“A stinging indictment of slavery.” NPR Books“This book provides historical reference for the ways in which the enslavement of people for profit continues to impact and influence today’s institutions. A must-read for everyone who has ever heard the statement, ‘But slavery is over! Why can’t they just get over it?’ or ‘Well, you know white people were slaves, too.’” Alicia Garza, The Atlantic“Digging into the large repository of oral histories from former slaves documented during the Great Depression, the book offers a moving account of suffering and resilience.” NPR’S Code SwitchWonderful.... Baptist provides meticulous, extensive, and comprehensive evidence that capitalism and the wealth it created was absolutely dependent on the forced labor of Africans and African-Americans, downplaying culturalist arguments for Western prosperity. NationBaptists real achievement is to ground these financial abstractions in the lives of ordinary people. In vivid passages, he describes the sights, smells and suffering of slavery. He writes about individual families torn apart by global markets. Above all, Baptist sets out to show how Americas rise to power is inextricable from the suffering of black slaves. Salon“Quite a gripping read. Baptist weaves deftly between analysis of economic data and narrative prose to paint a picture of American slavery that is pretty different from what you may have learned in high school Social Studies class.” Huffington Post“A book unusual, even courageous, for its enormous ambition and admirable breadth…Baptist’s book is among the best single-volume studies of the relationship between the expansion of slavery and the political economy of the United States…The Half Has Never Been Told has offered the historical backdrop for the stirring declaration ‘black lives matter