{"id":1534,"date":"2017-12-18T03:07:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T03:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.overbrookpublishing.com\/BackStory\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2017-12-18T03:07:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T03:07:57","slug":"book-review-the-half-has-never-been-told-slavery-and-the-making-of-american-capitalism-by-edward-e-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/book-review-the-half-has-never-been-told-slavery-and-the-making-of-american-capitalism-by-edward-e-baptist\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-told\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1390433357m\/14894629.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-told\">The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8439908.Edward_E_Baptist\">Edward E. Baptist<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2174672747\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHalf Has Never Been Told\u201d is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the complicated process of \u2018creative destruction\u2019 that generated unprecedented white wealth and systematic exploitation of the individuals who produced it \u2013 in equal measure. Objective and straightforward, Baptist\u2019s work is an unadorned, yet evocatively readable and well-sourced examination into the intricate economic and political factors that benefited Americans and Europeans alike; all parties are held accountable. In addition to documenting the unconscionable human tragedy that underscores the slave era, Baptist also explains how economically devastating bubbles develop, gain momentum, and inevitably burst. The parallels between financial crises in the early decades of the nineteenth century and our recent years illustrate how mistakes of the past repeat and haunt us. This book is as ambitious in its scope as it is brilliant. The \u201cHalf Has Never Been Told\u201d is important in helping us understand how who we were ultimately shaped who we became. We can\u2019t white-out the indelible ink of the past, but this book can change how Americans think and move forward into the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12333272-rosa-king\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist My rating: 5 of 5 stars The \u201cHalf Has Never Been Told\u201d is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the complicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/book-review-the-half-has-never-been-told-slavery-and-the-making-of-american-capitalism-by-edward-e-baptist\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/baptist-the-half-has-never-been-told-slavery-and-the-making-of-american-capitalism-hardcover-l9780465002962-e1513566426207.jpg?fit=655%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosadeberryking.com\/BackStory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}