Walker's review in Monthly Review offered a labor-history perspective on the book, while Paul Harvey in The Christian Century found the book to be "one of the richest and most provocative accounts of American slavery I have ever read." In The American Interest Paul DeRosa described the book as "a prodigious work that stacks up a mountain of documentary evidence." Essence named this book its choice for the Best Book of 2014 for History. Writing in The New York Times Book Review Eric Foner concluded the book's underlying argument was persuasive even though some of the its elements were "not entirely pulled together," and Kirkus Reviews found it to be a "dense, myth-busting work" that presents "a complicated story involving staggering scholarship that adds greatly to our understanding of the history of the United States. Craven Award, which was renamed the Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award in July 2020. He also received the Organization of American Historians' 2015 Avery O. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery’s end-and created a culture that sustains America’s deepest dreams of freedom. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. Historical figures with roles in Baptist's examination of this history includeįor this book Baptist received the 2015 Hillman Prize, which gave this description of his work: Baptist published in 2014 by Basic Books.īaptist makes the argument that slavery played an essential role in the development of American capitalism, and that enslavers and slave traders were entrepreneurs in a capitalist context, using enslaved people not just as the economic engine for the production of cotton, the dominant global commodity of the time, but also as collateral to finance the economic development of the nation.Īmong the themes explored in the book are the expansion and practices of chattel slavery, illustrated with both stories of individual enslaved people, based on personal histories such as the autobiography of Charles Ball, and composite stories constructed from a variety of sources in the style of evocative history, as well as statistics and maps showing changes across time how letters of credit and banks fueled land speculation and the westward expansion of slavery in the Old Southwest and the roles of New Orleans and the Haitian Revolution in these changes. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is a book by Edward E.
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