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Historic Slavery and The Making of American Capitalism

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Listen as Edward Baptist discusses how slavery built American capitalism.

Edward Baptist is the author of The Half Has Never Been Told:Slavery And The Making of American Capitalism. Baptist is a professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.

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