Releasing his breath in a rush of decision, he steps up to the door of the handmade house and knocks.ĭanville is on the western edge of the Virginia Piedmont. On the porch of number 513, he rearranges the notepads under his arm. Claude Anderson parks his car on the side of Holbrook Street in Danville. Read ExcerptĪ BEAUTIFUL LATE APRIL DAY, seventy-two years after slavery ended in the United States. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. 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. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansĪmericans 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.

Winner of the 2015 Avery O.A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

Americans 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.

Baptist the half has never been told