The Broken Throne

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On slavery and management

Ed Baptist, associate professor of history, writes about his new book in the latest issue of Publisher’s Weekly.

“The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism,” which will be released in September, is “an unapologetic, damning, and grisly account of slavery’s foundational place in the emergence of America as a global superpower,” according to the story.

“We like to think that the industrialization that lifted the Western world from rural backwardness to our contemporary consumer paradise was created by clever inventors, factory workers, and captains of industry,” Baptist writes. “But the transformations that made the modern world were also made in cotton fields.”

(via blackourstory)