The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. BaptistAmericans 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 robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told , the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the

each chapter marking the months in real time

Set up with a job counsellor

but also for the era that carelessly delighted in it

ENTER THE MAZE

weasels and pine martens

DEEPLY moving and exquisitely written

'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England

'Scintillating' The Sunday Times

with additional lyrics

But whether it's daytrips to the beach or drawing secret sketches

Proceeding month by month through the year

their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away