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.
