“But he forgot to close a lock one night, and as a newspaper reported, “the negroes rose and cut the throat of… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked… — Edward E. Baptist African american Copy Share Image
“From 1783 at the end of the American Revolution to 1861, the number of slaves in the United States increased five times… — Edward E. Baptist American revolution Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist African american Copy Share Image
“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich… — Edward E. Baptist African american Copy Share Image
“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Chains enabled another kind of violence to be done as well. Chains saved whites from worrying about placating this one’s mother, or… — Edward E. Baptist Chains Copy Share Image
“The pregnant women complained desperately. The Georgia-man rode on. After crossing the Potomac, he moved Ball, who was physically the strongest of… — Edward E. Baptist High road Copy Share Image
“Some resented the way coffles, driven right through town, put the most unpleasant parts of slavery right in their faces. Others resented… — Edward E. Baptist Federal government Copy Share Image
“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it… — Edward E. Baptist History Copy Share Image
“American” women (and a few men) complained that here, wealthy white men sometimes lived with mulatto women until it came time to… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil… — Edward E. Baptist Civil war Copy Share Image
“Their toil had made Jackson’s fortune and raised him to the prominence that won him election as the head of Tennessee’s militia.… — Edward E. Baptist Civil war Copy Share Image
“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers… — Edward E. Baptist African american Copy Share Image
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found,… — Edward E. Baptist Death Copy Share Image
“Once all the gold and silver had been thoroughly stolen, the empires found even greater sources of wealth by laying a belt… — Edward E. Baptist Gold and silver Copy Share Image
“Slave ships landed more than 1.5 million African captives on British Caribbean islands (primarily Jamaica and Barbados) by the late 1700s and… — Edward E. Baptist North america Copy Share Image
“The next day, as they walked, a stranger rode up, matching the Georgia-man’s pace. “Niggers for sale?” He wanted to buy two… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore… — Edward E. Baptist Black people Copy Share Image
“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton… — Edward E. Baptist Slavery Copy Share Image
“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of… — Edward E. Baptist Slavery Copy Share Image
