Selasa, 20 Desember 2016

Slavery as an Industrial Cornerstone: Interview with Edward E. Baptist

IN HIS BOOK The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books), Cornell history professor Edward E. Baptist documents how a brutally productive and expanding slave system, not free wage workers, created the powerful cotton industry that drove economic growth, prosperity and industrialization in the 19th century, and presaged …

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