- Social conditions, African Americans, Economic aspects, Slavery
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—. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.
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Earnest, grave, epic and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Edward E. Baptist
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781483030685
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Edward E. Baptist (born 1970) is an American academic and writer. He is a professor of history at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, where he specializes in the history of the 19th-century United States, particularly the South. Thematically, he has been interested in the history of capitalism and has also been interested in digital humanities methodologies. He is the author of numerous books. **Source**: [Edward E. Baptist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_E._Baptist) on Wikipedia
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