Edward Baptists new book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism refutes textbooks that present slavery like a distant aberration of American history. Here are five of his key arguments: 1) Slavery was a key driver of the formation of American wealth. 2) In its heyday, slavery was more efficient than free labor, contrary to the arguments made by some northerners at the time. 3) Slavery didnt just enrich the South, but also drove the industrial boom in the North. 4) Slavery wasnt showing any signs of slowing down economically by the time the Civil War came around. 5) The South seceded to guarantee the expansion of slavery. Read more: tinyurl/q7duhuv The book is here: tinyurl/lnr35ud .
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:52:46 +0000
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