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	The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,596 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert (Editor), Seth Rockman (Goodreads Author) (Editor)(Contributor), William Hughes (Narrator) 4.08 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Capitalism: A Reader by Louis Hyman, Edward E. Baptist (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Studies in the History of American Slavery 3.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South by Craig Thompson Friend (Editor), Edward E. Baptist (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Greg O'Brien (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encyclopedia of Slavery in the America's liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War by Edward E. Baptist(2009-12-11) by Edward E. Baptist (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War by E.M. Adams, Edward E. Baptist (Goodreads Author), William P. Webster 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journal of American History - March 1998 (Volume 84, Number 4) by Warren R. Hofstra, Marco Sioli, François Weil 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”
― Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And here is another irony. Haitians had opened 1804 by announcing their grand experiment of a society whose basis for citizenship was literally the renunciation of white privilege, but their revolution’s success had at the same time delivered the Mississippi Valley to a new empire of slavery. The”
― Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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“Moreover, the 3.2 million people enslaved in the United States had a market value of $1.3 billion in 1850—one-fifth of the nation’s wealth and almost equal to the entire gross national product. They were more liquid than other forms of American property, even if an acre of land couldn’t run away or kill an overseer with an axe.14”
― Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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