Read The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Online
Authors: Edward Baptist
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Cotton trade
credit, slavery and,
90–94
,
108
in New Orleans,
76–77
,
78 (photo)
,
81
,
82–83
,
87
See also
Slave trade
Creative destruction, and capitalism,
86
,
184
Credit,
90–94
,
100
,
108
,
229–233
,
244–245
,
245–248
,
249
,
254
,
272–273
Crittenden plan,
391–392
,
393
Cuba,
53–54
,
297–298
,
354–358
,
358 (photo)
,
373–374
Culture, African-American,
416
,
417
Cushing, Caleb,
370
,
388
Daniel, Peter,
377
,
378
Davenport, Carey,
190
Davis, Jefferson,
339
,
356
,
366
,
370
,
387
,
388
,
392
,
393
,
404
,
406
Declaration of Independence,
6
Delegates, free-state and slave-state,
157
Democracy, white-males-only,
252
Democrats, northern, and abolitionists’ attempts to silence,
327
Deposit Act of 1836,
270
Deslondes, Charles,
58
,
62
,
63
Destrehan slave labor camp,
60
,
61
,
62
,
109
Devereux, Adaline,
285
Devereux, John,
284–285
,
287–288
,
304–307
Devereux, Julien,
284–285
,
287–288
,
304
,
305
,
307
Dickinson, Richard,
344
,
359
Diffusion of slavery,
30
,
34–35
,
48
,
153
Douglas, Stephen,
301
,
302
,
340
,
367
,
369–372
,
375
,
376
,
388–389
Kansas-Nebraska Act and,
378
,
379
Lecompton constitution and,
381
Lincoln-Douglas debates,
381–383
Douglass, Frederick,
179
,
184
,
197
,
334
,
346
,
401
Harpers Ferry raid and,
384
Douglass, James,
402–403
,
404
Dred Scott v. Sanford
,
376–379
,
380
Drug foods,
79
Duncan, Stephen,
232
,
248
,
256
,
276
,
353
,
394
Economic collapse of 2008,
248
,
270
Edwards, Bryan,
236
,
237 (photo)
Election of 1860,
388–393
Elections,
232
white male equality and,
222–224
Ellsworth, Oliver,
10
,
11
Emancipated people, in Boston,
309–315
Emancipation,
399
,
400–402
,
406
British Empire,
297–298
Haiti,
44–49
Northern US,
4
,
7
,
14
]
Emancipation Proclamation,
400–402
,
406
Emerson, Eliza,
368–369
,
376
,
378
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
386
Enslaved men
as husbands and fathers,
280–284
manhood and,
219
,
262
,
281–282
resistance, honor, manhood and,
281–282
Enslaved people
altruism/sharing among,
150–152
clothing of,
114
,
122
conflict among,
149–150
corn-shucking competitions and,
158–160
,
161 (photo)
evangelical Protestantism/God and,
198–207
food provided for,
118
health/disease and,
114
,
122
infant death rates and,
122
,
122 (table)
,
123 (table)
innovation of,
138
,
140
,
142
,
163
language of,
148
,
150
mean heights of adults and,
182
,
183 (table)
number imported to/sold in New Orleans and,
76
,
77 (table)
,
102
,
103 (table)
number transferred from southeastern to southwestern states and,
185
political agenda of,
416–417
population of,
31
,
56
,
246 (table)
,
266
,
288
,
322
,
355
,
360–361
possessions of,
152–153
solidarity of,
172
songs/music/dancing and,
146–147
,
160–168
,
165 (photo)
as the Undead,
145–147
,
147–148
wages and,
129–130
wealth in the U.S. and,
245
,
246 (table)
See also
African Americans
Enslaved women
as “fancy girls,”
240–241
,
242–244
as laborers,
134
,
138–139
as mothers,
105–106
,
183
,
359
,
361–363
and pleasures of resistance,
159
,
164
and prostitution, forced,
240
rape of,
25
,
235
,
236–237
sexual exploitation of/sexual assault on,
215–217
,
233–244
,
305
,
359
(
see also
Sexual desire, slave trade, and financial risk
)
as spiritual/magical practitioners,
149–150
,
204–205
,
294–295
Entrepreneurs,
85–90
,
92
,
175
creative destruction and,
86
and future slave trading, creation of markets for,
107–108
See also
Professional slave trade/traders
European empires,
7
,
42–43
,
44
,
45
,
50
,
56
,
59
,
68
,
157
,
254
,
255
,
399
European immigration, to the North,
324
Evangelical Protestantism/God,
198–207
Expansion of slavery
false claims about,
29–30