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# The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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Review: An important book - The basic framework of the book is the economics of slavery and how it was intertwined with and drove the American economy. That's an important story that I suspect is not well understood by the general public. Most of us just know what we learned in high school, which is tremendously limited (for virtually any historical topic, not just slavery). Such history is necessarily condensed and really understood only in a limited, abstract way. You have to read something more in-depth to truly understand, which is why, for example, works by David McCullough and Robert Caro are so eye-opening and interesting. This book is an excellent example of that tradition, comprehensive with both the total overview and individualized stories that make history come alive. It's also about more than the economics of slavery, unless very broadly defined. The mechanics - coffle, whipping-machine, etc. - and the politics and the geography and the psychology of slavery are also there. It certainly isn't the complete story of slavery and its aftermath. You'll want to supplement with other works. But this is a very important part of the story. I feel that I have a much better (although still incomplete) understanding of that world after reading this. And it's very well written so you won't feel you're wading through a required textbook. Highly recommended.
Review: A book every child regardless of race should read in high school - Book is thoroughly researched and documented. A real quality work. Tells that slavery produced cotton, the commodity all the world needed and developed the United States economy at great cost to the slaves. No innovations were involved in what the slaves did just cruel method after cruel method to increase production. Over the period of time when cotton was picked production increased 300%. A lot of information about how slaves were treated. e.g. slaves walked as fast as they could while walking day after day in many cases from slave markets in Richmond, Va to clear forests for fields in Alabama and Mississippi. Families often broken up never to see each other again. A great book. Interesting that no major publisher published the book.also interesting that Richmond did not have it in its main library. Slavery is a secret kept by white supremicists that affects black people today. Black and white people have to realize its horrors.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #35,246 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #85 in Discrimination & Racism #101 in U.S. State & Local History #140 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,401) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 1.75 x 9.3 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0465049664 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0465049660 |
| Item Weight  | 1.5 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 560 pages |
| Publication date  | October 25, 2016 |
| Publisher  | Basic Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An important book
*by B***O on January 25, 2016*

The basic framework of the book is the economics of slavery and how it was intertwined with and drove the American economy. That's an important story that I suspect is not well understood by the general public. Most of us just know what we learned in high school, which is tremendously limited (for virtually any historical topic, not just slavery). Such history is necessarily condensed and really understood only in a limited, abstract way. You have to read something more in-depth to truly understand, which is why, for example, works by David McCullough and Robert Caro are so eye-opening and interesting. This book is an excellent example of that tradition, comprehensive with both the total overview and individualized stories that make history come alive. It's also about more than the economics of slavery, unless very broadly defined. The mechanics - coffle, whipping-machine, etc. - and the politics and the geography and the psychology of slavery are also there. It certainly isn't the complete story of slavery and its aftermath. You'll want to supplement with other works. But this is a very important part of the story. I feel that I have a much better (although still incomplete) understanding of that world after reading this. And it's very well written so you won't feel you're wading through a required textbook. Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book every child regardless of race should read in high school
*by R***D on December 31, 2023*

Book is thoroughly researched and documented. A real quality work. Tells that slavery produced cotton, the commodity all the world needed and developed the United States economy at great cost to the slaves. No innovations were involved in what the slaves did just cruel method after cruel method to increase production. Over the period of time when cotton was picked production increased 300%. A lot of information about how slaves were treated. e.g. slaves walked as fast as they could while walking day after day in many cases from slave markets in Richmond, Va to clear forests for fields in Alabama and Mississippi. Families often broken up never to see each other again. A great book. Interesting that no major publisher published the book.also interesting that Richmond did not have it in its main library. Slavery is a secret kept by white supremicists that affects black people today. Black and white people have to realize its horrors.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such an important book
*by P***N on May 6, 2017*

What I've learned reading Edward E. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: Between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, white enslavers in the U.S. dramatically expanded and intensified slavery, selling and separating black families on a scale not seen since the Middle Passage, to move more than a million enslaved black people west and south into labor camps, and systematically torturing these people on a scale not seen, perhaps, ever in recorded history, to force them to work harder, faster, longer, and smarter. The purpose and result of this second slavery was cotton, massive amounts of cotton, which sold for unthinkable amounts of money, enabling the industrial revolution in the U.S. and Europe and making it possible for the fledgling U.S. to become a world power. In both the North and the South, almost every white person in the U.S. benefited economically from this expansion of slavery—from enslavers, to bankers, to factory workers, to housewives. Meanwhile, enslaved black people resisted in every way possible—from telling the truth to one another about what had been stolen from them, to running away, to uprising, to joining the Union Army in mass and winning the Civil War. If you're like me, you grew up hearing, as a politician recently tweeted, "Hard work and freedom made this country great." That's half true. Hard work stolen by whips and chains literally, calculably made this country "great." With thorough documentation, Baptist definitively shows how integral, central slavery is in U.S. history. Why is this important to know? Of course, we're not responsible for our great, great grandparents' wrongs. But our understanding (or misunderstanding) of those wrongs shapes how we carry out what IS our responsibility: what we do with the world they left us.

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