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In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped our country politically, morally, and most of all, economically. Until the Civil War, our chief form of innovation was slavery. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from their slaves, giving the country a virtual monopoly on the production of cotton, a key raw material of the Industrial Revolution.
As Baptist argues, this frenzy of speculation and economic expansion transformed the United States into a modern capitalist nation. Based on thousands of slave narratives and plantation records, The Half Has Never Been Told offers not only a radical revision of the history of slavery but a disturbing new understanding of the origins of American power that compels listeners to reckon with the violence and subjugation at the root of American supremacy.
- Sales Rank: #723880 in Books
- Published on: 2014-09-09
- Formats: Audiobook, CD
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 16
- Dimensions: 5.90" h x 1.80" w x 5.20" l,
- Running time: 72000 seconds
- Binding: Audio CD
- 1 pages
Review
Wall Street Journal
“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.”
New York Times Book Review
“Baptist's work is a valuable addition to the growing literature on slavery and American development.... Baptist has a knack for explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose.... The Half Has Never Been Told's underlying argument is persuasive.”
Vikas Bajaj, New York Times
“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.”
Los Angeles Times
“The overwhelming power of the stories that Baptist recounts, and the plantation-level statistics he's compiled, give his book the power of truth and revelation.”
Huffington Post Black Voices blog
“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.”
Salon
“Baptist's 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 America's rise to power is inextricable from the suffering of black slaves.”
Washington Independent Review of Books
“Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told is an achievement of the first order.... With Baptist's meticulous research and comprehensive, chronological approach, the other half of the story has now been told, and told very well.”
Mashable
“Baptist has a fleet, persuasive take on the materialist underpinnings of the 'peculiar institution.'"
Daily Beast
“Thoughtful, unsettling.... Baptist turns the long-accepted argument that slavery was economically inefficient on its head, and argues that it was an integral part of America's economic rise.”
Nation
“Wonderful.... 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.”
Providence Journal Best Books of 2014
“Baptist's exhaustively researched, elegantly written and provocatively argued book details the connection between the growth of the institution of human bondage and economic innovations from 1783–1861.”
Guardian Australia Best Books of 2014
“A compelling case for recognizing slavery as fundamental to the rise of the
United States.”
Seattle Times
“[Baptist] presents a detailed case, showing how the American economy benefited from profits gained by forced labor and financial instruments that enabled investors to profit from slavery.”
About the Author
Edward E. Baptist�is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the awardwinning�Creating an Old South, he lives in Ithaca, New York.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
And he makes a good argument that slavery would not have died if it ...
By Eric Anthony Koszyk
Edward Baptist makes several strong arguments, some of which turn conventional wisdom on its head. Some of his arguments are difficult to read and go against our preferred versions of U.S.history.
He details how American slavery was one of the most productive economic institutions in world history and how the expansion of slavery made the U.S. into a modern industrial empire. He details how slavery, by use of torture and terrorism, increased productivity and made the cotton industry the biggest, most sustained, expansion of the economy in human history.
He makes the point that it wasn't just a Southern industry; indeed it benefitted the entire world -- from Northern banks, ship builders and industries that supported slavery (farm implements, whips, ropes, chains, etc) to the textile mills of Western Europe, especially Britain.
And he makes a good argument that slavery would not have died if it hadn't been for the Civil War. Indeed, from the founding of the nation, slavery had grown for 70 years at a rate unprecedented in human history. There's no evidence to suggest that such a profitable and productive industry would have ever died out on its own accord. He shows that the cotton industry was never as productive again, after it lost it's use of the whip.
Finally, he points out that the South brought about their own destruction. It was they that always pushed for more and more expansion of slavery (even contemplating taking over Cuba and all of Mexico!), which pushed Northerners into fearing for their own loss of political power. The Southern push for ever-growing slavery culminated in the creation of the new Republican Party, formed to not end slavery but to end it's expansion. The South then went to war in order to create its own government based on slavery. Thankfully, they were destroyed.
It's a very well written book that not only makes his arguments with well researched historical documents. He also adds powerful voice to the millions of men, women and children who suffered under the bondage of slavery.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Gripping and haunting
By cheesedoodle
This is a five-star book for me not because, as the mouseover bubble read, "I love it!" but because it opened my eyes and because it haunts me. Baptist does a brilliant job at revealing the societally sociopathic links between "driving GDP" and "boosting individual productivity" through creative, innovative cruelty. The whole Western world is implicated. Did your forebears wear cotton clothing? Then they benefited from the monstrous, profit-driven cruelty that made cotton the number one industrial material in the world and the U.S. the most powerful and wealthiest nation in the world. Many times I had to set this book down and take a break from it, even though it was gripping reading. Any American who believes that he or she is miraculously innocent of any complicity in the violent, persistent, systemic racism in our society is being willfully blind. This research should guide our teaching of American history for decades to come.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
he echoes the call of black intellectuals like me for a re-examination of the language associated with ...
By Michelle Lamb Discher
Baptist's work is significant if only because he carefully and dispassionately details the intricacies of the economic slave trade vis a vis the industries (including cotton) it made possible, the ubiquity of physical and sexual abuse and exploitation, the systematic and deliberate destruction of family, language and community. Moreover, he echoes the call of black intellectuals like me for a re-examination of the language associated with the trade. It's a dense, but vivid tome, and I learned a lot.
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