The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

On March 6, 2017, Professor Edward Baptist spoke to a packed house in ten Hoor Hall about his new project, a history of efforts to contain black movement in North America and of resistance to those efforts. His talk, entitled “Making White Freedom by Hunting Enslaved Africans,” described the evolution of laws and social practices […]

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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Cornell University Professor Edward Baptist Speaks to Department