How long does it take to read The Half Has Never Been Told?
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist takes about 9 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 543 pages, about 149,325 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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 E. Baptist reveals in the prizewinning 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. 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.
Subjects: Social conditions, African Americans, Economic aspects, Slavery, History, African American Studies
