![]() ![]() ![]() Plantations (“slave labor camps,” he calls them) were run with the ruthless efficiency of your average sweatshop. Baptist makes a persuasive case that slavery wasn’t like that at all. In “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism,” Cornell professor Edward E. Being lord of the manor was its own reward. ![]() For slave owners, profit was a secondary concern. Slavery was an economically inefficient institution, they argued. Life on the antebellum plantation, they led us to believe, was as languid as a slow-moving river winding through magnolia trees.Īt about the same time, American historians were writing the first analyses of slave-centered Southern society. The image of the genteel, benevolent Southern slave owner was the creation of early 20th century artists and writers like D.W. ![]()
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