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Edward Baptist was born in 1970, on January 3, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He is a son of Edward W. and Lynda Hamshar Baptist.
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Edward Baptist studied at Georgetown University at the Foreign Service Department, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 1992
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Edward Baptist studied at the University of Pennsylvania and received a Doctor of Philosophy here in 1997.
(Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses t...)
Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South. Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson and Leon Counties. Slaves, torn from family and community, were forced to carve plantations from the woods of Middle Florida, while planters and less wealthy white men battled over the social, political, and economic institutions of their new society. Conflict between white men became full-scale crisis in the 1840s, but when sectional conflict seemed to threaten slavery, the whites of Middle Florida found common ground. In politics and everyday encounters, they enshrined the ideal of white male equality--and black inequality. To mask their painful memories of crisis, the planter elite told themselves that their society had been transplanted from older states without conflict. But this myth of an "Old," changeless South only papered over the struggles that transformed slave society in the course of its expansion. In fact, that myth continues to shroud from our view the plantation frontier, the very engine of conflict that had led to the myth's creation.
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2002
(These essays, by some of the most prominent young histori...)
These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved people, and enslavement in Latin America. Inventive and stimulating, the essays model the blending of methods and styles that characterizes the new cultural history of slavery’s social, political, and economic systems. Several common themes emerge from the volume, among them the correlation between race and identity; the meanings contained in family and community relationships, gender, and life’s commonplaces; and the literary and legal representations that legitimated and codified enslavement and difference. Such themes signal methodological and pedagogical shifts in the field away from master/slave or white/black race relations models toward perspectives that give us deeper access to the mental universe of slavery. Topics of the essays range widely, including European ideas about the reproductive capacities of African women and the process of making race in the Atlantic World, the contradictions of the assimilation of enslaved African American runaways into Creek communities, the consequences and meanings of death to Jamaican slaves and slave owners, and the tensions between midwifery as a black cultural and spiritual institution and slave midwives as health workers in a plantation economy. Opening our eyes to the personal, the contentious, and even the intimate, these essays call for a history in which both enslaved and enslavers acted in a vast human drama of bondage and freedom, salvation and damnation, wealth and exploitation.
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2006
(From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward...)
From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course American Capitalism: A Reader. To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story is as essential to get right as the history of capitalism. Nearly all of our theories about promoting progress come from how we interpret the economic changes of the last 500 years. This past decade’s crises continue to remind us just how much capitalism changes, even as basic features like wage labor, financial markets, private property, and entrepreneurs endure. While capitalism has a global history, the United States plays a special role in that story. American Capitalism: A Reader will help you to understand how the United States became the world’s leading economic power, while revealing essential lessons about what has been and what will be possible in capitalism’s ongoing revolution. Combining a wealth of essential readings, introductions by Professors Baptist and Hyman, and questions to help guide readers through the materials and broader subject, this course reader will prepare students to think critically about the history of capitalism in America.
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2014
(A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that Am...)
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves 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. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in the prizewinning 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. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical, new interpretation of American history.
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2016
Edward Baptist was born in 1970, on January 3, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He is a son of Edward W. and Lynda Hamshar Baptist.
Edward Baptist earned a Bachelor of Science at Georgetown University in 1992. In 1997 he also received a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Edward Baptist started his career at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he worked as a lecturer from 1997 to 1998. Later he changed his occupation and became an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, Miami. Florida, where he worked from 1998 to 2003. His current place of work is the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He works here as an Assistant Professor of history since 2003. He is also a Member of the editorial board for Florida Historical Quarterly and H-Carib (online discussion network).
(These essays, by some of the most prominent young histori...)
2006(A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that Am...)
2016(Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses t...)
2002(From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward...)
2014Edward E. Baptist was a fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities from 2000 to 2001, a Member of Organization of American History, also American History Society and Southern History Society.
Edward Baptist's wife is Stephanie Nevels. They were married on July 9, 1994. Edward and Stephanie Baptist have two children - Lillian Faith and Ezra James.