Slavery and American Capitalism Paper
Read: Start with this excerpt from Baptist’s book The Half Has Never Been Told: https://www.salon.com/test2/2014/09/07/we_still_lie_about_slavery_heres_the_truth _about_how_the_american_economy_and_power_were_built_on_forced_migration_a nd_torture/ Then read this article from the New York Times’s Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project on Slavery and American Capitalism: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html Then listen to this podcast from the 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/podcasts/1619-slavery-cotton-capitalism.html Then read this article that disputes many of Baptist and the NHC’s conclusions about Slavery and American Capitalism: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498317302292 Then watch this lecture: https://www.ehs.org.uk/multimedia/tawney-lecture-2019- slavery-and-anglo-american-capitalism-revisited Write a 5-6 page paper on slavery and American capitalism that accomplishes the following objectives: • Summarizes the debate between NHC and economic historians. • Explains which side of the debate you find most convincing. • Defends your position using specific supporting evidence. Please use these sources to cite in the essay, and include a work cited page Please follow the instructions and if there are any questions please just shoot me a message.
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