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Description
xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-486) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The heart : 1937 -- Feet : 1783-1810 -- Heads : 1791-1815 -- Right hand : 1815-1819 -- Left hand : 1805-1861 -- Tongues : 1819-1824 -- Breath : 1824-1835 -- Seed : 1829-1837 -- Blood : 1836-1844 -- Backs : 1839-1850 -- Arms : 1850-1861 -- Afterword: The corpse : 1861-1937.
Summary
Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
