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In The 50 percent HASN'T Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist unveils the alarming magnitude to which slavery molded our country politically, morally, and most of all, economically. Until the Civil War, our main form of innovation was slavery. Through required migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual rises in efficiency from their slaves, giving the united states a virtual monopoly on the development of cotton, an integral raw materials of the Industrial Trend. As Baptist argues, this frenzy of speculation and financial expansion transformed the United States into a modern capitalist nation. Based on a large number of slave narratives and plantation data, The Half HASN'T Been Told offers not only a radical revision of the annals of slavery but a troubling new knowledge of the roots of American electric power that compels listeners to reckon with the violence and subjugation at the main of American supremacy.
