By Gloria Dulan-Wilson
Hello All:
Hope this finds you well!
I was in a conversation with a friend recently, and she mentioned this book that breaks down slavery and the economic impact and benefits it had on the US - and the reason why REPARATIONS is essential. It's so comprehensive they actually put together a study guide to go with it. I'm not sure you're aware of it. I may just be the one on the late show about this one. Of course, I don't need a book to convince me that they owe us BIG TIME. But I've also come across people (Black and white) who don't seem to get the connection - or pretend not to.
I don't want a "study long, study wrong" syndrome to evolve - because the "study" was already started by The Hon. Congressman JOHN CONYERS (D/Detroit) nearly 40 years ago. I just consider this ammunition and documentation. As if the kidnapping of millions of people, middle passage, and the ultimate enslavement and deprivation of rights under the most egregiously inhumane circumstances weren't already indictable crimes.
Okay! Okay! Not going to get on the soap box. I want this to go from conversation and controversy to action and compensation!
Just sending you the Google Link to the book in case you want to read it for yourself.
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria
Here's the link - there are several editions to select from. Of course, this is from online. If you know of a BLACK BOOK STORE that is also selling this book, please let me know - would rather support them. Otherwise, this is these are the only sources I am aware of thus far.
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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.
As historian Edward 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. 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. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence.
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. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery's end and created a culture that sustains America's deepest dreams of freedom.
As historian Edward 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. 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. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence.
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. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery's end and created a culture that sustains America's deepest dreams of freedom.
These are Google Links to the book:
https://www.google.com/search?authuser=0&sxsrf=ACYBGNQyo59r_0oV7wOw1rBRGAH45QiL7A%3A1569787855571&ei=zw-RXd6vIs6v_Qbs3YzwBg&q=Book%3A++The+Half+Has+Never+Been+Told++-+Edward+E+Baptist&oq=Book%3A++The+Half+Has+Never+Been+Told++-+Edward+E+Baptist&gs_l=psy-ab.12..33i299l3j33i160.75291.110315..114138...1.2..0.377.9150.0j49j3j4......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j33i10.whbWI6ddVKM&ved=0ahUKEwie04O86_bkAhXOV98KHewuA24Q4dUDCAo
NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
STAY BLESSED &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria
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