Americans tend to cast Slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation\'s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America\'s later success.
In the span of a single lifetime, the South.
Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told , the expansion of Slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
As historian Edward E.
But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.
Americans tend to cast Slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation\'s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America\'s later success