Slavery as practiced in what is now the United States is one of the greatest crimes and one of the greatest coverups in human history. But it is covered up no more. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Ned and Constance Sublette is a masterful forensic investigation. A profound work of scholarship and revelation, it is the story not just of chattel slavery but of the United States itself. It exposes in meticulous detail a history that has been sugarcoated, broken into pieces so tiny as to become meaningless, or often not told at all. It is a juggernaut in a new wave of books that explains our past as we have never been able to see it before.
It is one thing to understand the fabric of white supremacy and economic exploitation that is the U.S. brand of capitalism as it exists today. It’s quite another to learn how the threads were spun and woven together into what has become the biggest empire in the history of the world....
http://www.alternet.org/books/finally-our-true-history-being-revealed
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