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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Nature_Gift_Guide it was moving too fastThe classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. "Gripping." New York Times A stinging indictment of slavery. NPR Books? Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre modern institutionthe 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