This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So this is my final podcast on the half has never been told. I've kind of done a few of these.

The book by Edward Baptist which is a must read if you are an American or anybody that wants to understand the

founding principles of our economy in the United States of America, which was enslaving human beings.

That was the founding principle economically

for the United States of America.

This is an important book for a number of reasons,

not just that it kind of breaks down the institution of slavery in a way that I have never seen before.

And this is my last podcast, not because I don't have 51 11 things to talk about out of this book, but y'all need to read it for yourself.

The half has never been told and shared with people because it had a profound impact on how I saw

not just my history as a black person in America,

but also the history of this country.

So towards the end of the book,

and one of the final chapters, it talks about John Brown,

the abolitionist.

And, you know, I've read about him, of course, I've read about him in school, I've read about him

as an adult, but what Baptist does for me talking about John Brown in this book is kind of put on

front street the actual thought about from the perspective of white people in America.

Now the notion that there were Northern abolitionists the I'm sure there were a few I'm sure there was some Quakers and a handful and John Brown was definitely in that category

somebody who felt a moral imperative to end slavery he felt that it was a moral that it was wrong

to hold human beings in bondage but the vast majority of

abolitionists the vast majority of northerners who wanted to see slavery ended

wanted to see slavery ended not because they thought that Africans, African Americans,

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