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

Baptist, Edward E., (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465002962 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 046500296X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-486) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > Economic aspects > United States > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.

Available copies

  • 15 of 15 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 306.362 BAPTIST (Text) 50686014767896 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 306.3 B222h (Text) 85131001426155 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 306.362 BAPTIST (Text) 35740634683270 Nonfiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 306.3 BAP (Text) 92517335 GFWM Main Room Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 306.362 Baptist History (Text) 39427102921251 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Mifflin Community Library 306.3 BAP (Text) 33249021179670 Non-fiction Available -
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County Adults 973.7 BAP Nonfiction (Text) 34318001093638 Adult Area Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library 306.3 B229 (Text) 30003008702191 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main 306.3620973 Bap (Text) 33223007615338 Non-fiction Available -
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