“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 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 Money 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 South carolina 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
“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 Another man 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 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
“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
“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
“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 Next day 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
