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

The Half Has Never Been Told is a groundbreaking history that reveals how slavery drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.

This book offers a radical new interpretation of American history, shedding light on the little-known role of slavery in shaping the country's economic supremacy.

Through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after independence transformed the South into a continental cotton empire and the United States into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.

This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the true legacy of slavery on America's rise to greatness.