The Antiracism Discussion Group Book Series
Book Study: The Half Has Never Been Told
Adult Education: The Antiracism Discussion Group discusses contemporary and historical issues of race, color, and ethnicity and their impact on our society in order to enable change in perspective, both individually and collectively, to encourage antiracism in the broader community. It is designed as a safe place for members of our parish and community to gain a deeper understanding of how racism affects our lives.
We meet Mondays at 7pm on Zoom. All are welcome to attend. Click the link below to email us with questions or to request the Zoom link.
About our Current Read (from Amazon.com):
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E Baptist
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 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 the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
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