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> [“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/enslaved-african-americans-built-the-modern-united-states-and-indeed/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

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## More by Edward E. Baptist

> [“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/few-years-after-ball-was-herded-south-a-slave-trader-marched-a-coffle/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“American” women (and a few men) complained that here, wealthy white men sometimes lived with mulatto women until it came time to marry a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/american-women-and-a-few-men-complained-that-here-wealthy-white-men/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/enslaved-african-americans-built-the-modern-united-states-and-indeed/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers united against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/within-half-a-century-after-butler-sent-charles-mallory-away-from/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil War, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-returns-from-cotton-monopoly-powered-the-modernization-of-the/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Chains enabled another kind of violence to be done as well. Chains saved whites from worrying about placating this one’s mother, or buying that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/chains-enabled-another-kind-of-violence-to-be-done-as-well-chains/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Once all the gold and silver had been thoroughly stolen, the empires found even greater sources of wealth by laying a belt of plantation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/once-all-the-gold-and-silver-had-been-thoroughly-stolen-the-empires/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/one-night-at-a-tavern-in-virginia-s-greenbrier-county-a-traveler/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked wistfully to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/many-whites-now-proclaiming-that-science-proved-that-people-of/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“But he forgot to close a lock one night, and as a newspaper reported, “the negroes rose and cut the throat of Mr. Speers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/but-he-forgot-to-close-a-lock-one-night-and-as-a-newspaper-reported/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton labor. Yet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/by-the-1840s-the-north-had-built-a-complex-industrialized-economy-on/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found, some people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/heroes-deal-out-vengeance-wiping-out-insults-and-in-an-existential/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-idea-that-the-commodification-and-suffering-and-forced-labor-of/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/even-today-most-us-history-textbooks-tell-the-story-of-the-louisiana/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

> [“The next day, as they walked, a stranger rode up, matching the Georgia-man’s pace. “Niggers for sale?” He wanted to buy two women. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-next-day-as-they-walked-a-stranger-rode-up-matching-the-georgia/)

[Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/)

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