We spend the whole hour talking with Edward Baptist about his latest book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. It gives you a glimpse of the world in a way that you never imagined before, or didn't understand thoroughly before. The expansion of slavery after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the US, making the South a continental cotton empire, and the US a global capitalist economic power.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Production Assistant Teddy Robinson â Engineer
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