Read an excerpt from The Half has Never Been Told by Ed Baptist at Alternet: "Some fundamental assumptions about the history of slavery and the history of the United States remain strangely unchanged. The first major assumption is that, as an economic system—a way of producing and trading commodities—American slavery was fundamentally different from the rest … Continue reading Baptist: America’s Economy Was Built on Slavery, Not White Ingenuity—Historians Should Tell It Like It Is | Alternet
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Hudson on The Racist Dawn of Capitalism | Boston Review
Peter James Hudson reviews three recent history of slavery and capitalism texts to place them in conversation with radical black scholarship and political thought, past and present: "Jaurès’s vision of economic questions as the primary engine of social and political change, his linking of capitalism with modernity, his casting of elites as historical actors—all these … Continue reading Hudson on The Racist Dawn of Capitalism | Boston Review
Baptist on What Whites Refuse to Believe About Slavery | The Guardian
"In 1845, Frederick Douglass, a fugitive from slavery, joined dozens of white passengers on the British ship Cambria in New York harbor. Somewhere out on the Atlantic, the other passengers discovered that the African American activist in their midst had just published a sensational autobiography. They convinced the captain to host a sort of salon, … Continue reading Baptist on What Whites Refuse to Believe About Slavery | The Guardian
Baptist On “What the Economist Doesn’t Get About Slavery” in POLITICO Magazine
"We think of authors as people who lay themselves bare in their books, but perhaps reviewers of books reveal their innermost fears and beliefs as well. That can be true even when—as in the distinguished British periodical the Economist, founded in 1843—the reviewers hide behind anonymity. When Mr./Ms. Anonymous of the Economist reviewed my book … Continue reading Baptist On “What the Economist Doesn’t Get About Slavery” in POLITICO Magazine
The Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
On Sept 4, 2014, the Economist reviewed Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: "So Mr Baptist, an historian at Cornell University, is not being especially contentious when he says that America owed much of its early growth to the foreign exchange, cheaper raw materials and expanding markets provided by a slave-produced commodity. But … Continue reading The Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
BOOK: Baptist on Slavery and Capitalism in America
via Basic Books: "A sweeping, authoritative history of the expansion of slavery in America, showing how forced migrations radically altered the nation's economic, political, and cultural landscape. Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so … Continue reading BOOK: Baptist on Slavery and Capitalism in America
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