Podcast appearances and mentions of Edward E Baptist

In this episode Carla Wills and Negest Rucker joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss their family connections to slavery in Maryland and the Catholic Church. Recommended books related to this episode:The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns.The ledger and the chain : how domestic slave traders shaped America / Joshua D. RothmanSlavery and freedom on the middle ground : Maryland during the nineteenth century / Barbara Jeanne Fields.Facing Georgetown's history : a reader on slavery, memory, and reconciliation / edited by Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza.The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / Allan Kulikoff.Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno.Music used in this episodeTitle: Good Kids InstAuthor: HoliznaRAPS/https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/Source: Free Music Archive / https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Slavery was an integral part of the American republic from the moment of independence until the abolition of the so-called “peculiar institution” with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865. The social and economic impact of the slave system, however, are much larger in terms of both time and geography. In this episode, Bob and Ben speak with Edward Baptist about slavery's origins, its evolution, and how enslaved people's work laid the foundation for modern capitalism. He also shares stories of the people who suffered under- and those who profited from- the inhumane system of American slavery. Dr. Edward E. Baptist is Professor of History at Cornell University and author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014), which won the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize. This is an enhanced rebroadcast of RTN #117, which originally aired on January 14, 2019. This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.

David Dylan Thomas is the author of Design for Cognitive Bias and the creator and host of the Cognitive Bias podcast. Dave has consulted with major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. As the founder and CEO of David Dylan Thomas, LLC, he offers workshops and presentations on inclusive design and the role of bias in making decisions. We talk about cognitive bias, ethics, and dreaming the future of design. Listen to learn about: How cognitive biases affect the way we think and design Inclusive design David's Assumption Audit How participatory design shifts power Why businesses can struggle with ethics Where should we go in the future of design? Our Guest David Dylan Thomas, author of Design for Cognitive Bias, creator and host of The Cognitive Bias Podcast, and a twenty-year practitioner of content strategy and UX, has consulted major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. As the founder and CEO of David Dylan Thomas, LLC he offers workshops and presentations on inclusive design and the role of bias in making decisions. He has presented at TEDNYC, SXSW Interactive, Confab, Button, An Event Apart, UX Copenhagen, UX Days Tokyo, and more on topics at the intersection of bias, design, and social justice.   Show Highlights [01:51] How Iris Bohnet's talk, What Works: Gender Equality By Design helped David connect his work in UX/content strategy with cognitive bias. [02:28] The role of pattern recognition in racial and gender discrimination. [03:20] How David started learning about cognitive biases and starting the Cognitive Bias podcast. [03:59] Writing a book, and shifting his consulting into inclusive design and designing for cognitive bias. [05:37] Why it's important for designers to slow down and take time to think about how cognitive biases may be affecting the design decisions they are making. [07:29] David's advice for those wanting to start to learn about cognitive bias and inclusive design. [07:47] Using what you value most as a north star when designing. [08:40] David's “assumption audit” five-question exercise to do before starting a project. [10:56] Two places where a lot of people struggle when it comes to inclusive design. [13:18] Giving a voice and power to the people you are designing for. [15:17] Dawan mentions the fear of starting, and the need for discomfort training. [15:42] David mentions Mike Monteiro, who talks about needing to be able to wrestle with your discomfort. [18:33] A look at the problems with, and ethics of, collecting personal data. [19:33] It's always best to think about inclusivity and cognitive biases as early as possible in a project, but at least before you take an expensive step. [21:21] David offers a great question for an applicant to ask in a job interview. [23:26] Facebook's natural engagement graph, and why businesses can struggle with ethics. [28:29] How people approach design research and ethics is changing. [28:44] Participatory design's power map. [29:43] Looking at the city of Philadelphia's work with the Office of Homeless Services. [31:46] Connecting the locus of power to the locus of insight. [32:35] David talks about how to get leadership buy-in to what you're designing. [36:14] How much of what we're using today should we take into the future of design? [38:26] Envisioning a world outside of ownership. [39:34] Designing for sharing. [41:22] Resources David recommends for people wanting to learn more. [41:57] We can design something better for the future.   Links David on Twitter David on LinkedIn David's website Design for cognitive bias: Using mental shortcuts for good instead of evil, presentation for UX New Zealand 2020 The Cognitive Bias podcast Design x David Dylan Thomas interview on DxU The Content Strategy Podcast Ep 48: David Dylan Thomas - Understanding design, content and bias Iris Bohnet | What Works: Gender Equality by Design | SXSW Interactive 2016 Project Inkblot Weekly Fluctuations in Risk Tolerance and Voting Behaviour, by J.G. Sanders and Rob Jenkins Báyò Akómoláfé   Book Recommendations Design for Cognitive Bias, by David Dylan Thomas Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward E. Baptist   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like Designing with Government Partners + Hidden Design Phases with Chelsea Mauldin — DT101 E98 Design for Good + Gut Checks + Seeing Power with George Aye — DT101 E50 Designing for Behavior Change + Gameful Design with Dustin DiTommaso — DT101 E28  

David Dylan Thomas is the author of Design for Cognitive Bias and the creator and host of the Cognitive Bias podcast. Dave has consulted with major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. As the founder and CEO of David Dylan Thomas, LLC, he offers workshops and presentations on inclusive design and the role of bias in making decisions. We talk about cognitive bias, ethics, and dreaming the future of design. Listen to learn about: How cognitive biases affect the way we think and design Inclusive design David's Assumption Audit How participatory design shifts power Why businesses can struggle with ethics Where should we go in the future of design? Our Guest David Dylan Thomas, author of Design for Cognitive Bias, creator and host of The Cognitive Bias Podcast, and a twenty-year practitioner of content strategy and UX, has consulted major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. As the founder and CEO of David Dylan Thomas, LLC he offers workshops and presentations on inclusive design and the role of bias in making decisions. He has presented at TEDNYC, SXSW Interactive, Confab, Button, An Event Apart, UX Copenhagen, UX Days Tokyo, and more on topics at the intersection of bias, design, and social justice.   Show Highlights [01:51] How Iris Bohnet's talk, What Works: Gender Equality By Design helped David connect his work in UX/content strategy with cognitive bias. [02:28] The role of pattern recognition in racial and gender discrimination. [03:20] How David started learning about cognitive biases and starting the Cognitive Bias podcast. [03:59] Writing a book, and shifting his consulting into inclusive design and designing for cognitive bias. [05:37] Why it's important for designers to slow down and take time to think about how cognitive biases may be affecting the design decisions they are making. [07:29] David's advice for those wanting to start to learn about cognitive bias and inclusive design. [07:47] Using what you value most as a north star when designing. [08:40] David's “assumption audit” five-question exercise to do before starting a project. [10:56] Two places where a lot of people struggle when it comes to inclusive design. [13:18] Giving a voice and power to the people you are designing for. [15:17] Dawan mentions the fear of starting, and the need for discomfort training. [15:42] David mentions Mike Monteiro, who talks about needing to be able to wrestle with your discomfort. [18:33] A look at the problems with, and ethics of, collecting personal data. [19:33] It's always best to think about inclusivity and cognitive biases as early as possible in a project, but at least before you take an expensive step. [21:21] David offers a great question for an applicant to ask in a job interview. [23:26] Facebook's natural engagement graph, and why businesses can struggle with ethics. [28:29] How people approach design research and ethics is changing. [28:44] Participatory design's power map. [29:43] Looking at the city of Philadelphia's work with the Office of Homeless Services. [31:46] Connecting the locus of power to the locus of insight. [32:35] David talks about how to get leadership buy-in to what you're designing. [36:14] How much of what we're using today should we take into the future of design? [38:26] Envisioning a world outside of ownership. [39:34] Designing for sharing. [41:22] Resources David recommends for people wanting to learn more. [41:57] We can design something better for the future.   Links David on Twitter David on LinkedIn David's website Design for cognitive bias: Using mental shortcuts for good instead of evil, presentation for UX New Zealand 2020 The Cognitive Bias podcast Design x David Dylan Thomas interview on DxU The Content Strategy Podcast Ep 48: David Dylan Thomas - Understanding design, content and bias Iris Bohnet | What Works: Gender Equality by Design | SXSW Interactive 2016 Project Inkblot Weekly Fluctuations in Risk Tolerance and Voting Behaviour, by J.G. Sanders and Rob Jenkins Báyò Akómoláfé   Book Recommendations Design for Cognitive Bias, by David Dylan Thomas Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward E. Baptist   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like Designing with Government Partners + Hidden Design Phases with Chelsea Mauldin — DT101 E98 Design for Good + Gut Checks + Seeing Power with George Aye — DT101 E50 Designing for Behavior Change + Gameful Design with Dustin DiTommaso — DT101 E28  

In this episode, I provide highlights of my visit to Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut as well as my more recent visit to the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. I talk about viewing a Common Loon at Picnic Point! Said bird was viewed in company with the great birder Dexter Patterson and Dan Fallon! I also introduce Edward E. Baptist my next guest. His work focuses on the history of the 19th-century United States, particularly the history of the enslavement of African Americans in the South. He is writing a book enslaved captive's experience of the slave trades and forced migrations, the systems of labor that emerged, and the economic and political and cultural consequences for women and men and children. He also owns a farm with his wife in the Fingerlakes region of New york. And he is an AVID Cyclist too. Y'all listen in for Dr. Ed Baptist next time.  Links: https://nelson.wisc.edu/https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/rbryant/profile.htmlhttps://dexterpatterson.com/https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/common-loonhttps://research.cornell.edu/researchers/edward-e-baptist

How does the way we grow and make and drink wine fit into a historical and ecological perspective? What is the importance of organic or biodynamic or regenerative ways of farming grapes? How are we related to grapes, and what does that mean for our relationship with all of nature? Is the climate crisis really a cultural crisis? And what are the solutions to the cultural climate crisis that now threatens both our wines and our lives? These and many other questions are addressed in this special anniversary episode in which host and creator Adam Huss gives a retrospective and introspective review of the things we learned in the last year on the Organic Wine Podcast. Books referenced include: The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry The Overstory, by Richard Powers The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward E. Baptist Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, by David Montgomery Tending The Wild, by M. Kat Anderson Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer   Sponsor: Centralas Wine https://www.centralaswine.com/

This episode was recorded on July 1st, 2021. We are joined again by Gary & Ralph. Enjoy! — Discussed: the controversy surrounding Django Unchained; The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist; slave revenge stories; Thomas Jefferson; The Whitney Plantation museum; psychopathic histories; Indiana Jones; favorite lines from Django; Tarantino's depiction of violence; fugitive slave laws; a sweet ending; Bass Reeves; Dead or Alive; an inverse of “The Magical Negro” trope; Django's transformation; Schultz's decision to shoot Candy; Stephen Warren; plot holes; Schultz's character; southern hospitality; the original Django; suicide by cop; Star Wars: A New Hope; tenacity and privilege; the value of an outsider's perspective; Twelve Years a Slave; intended audiences; confronting darkness in film; southern myth making; performative courtesy and violence; and Auschwitz weddings. — Email us your thoughts, questions, and suggestions at bostonnj@racetraderpodcast.com. Discuss the show with the #racetraderpodcast hashtag on Twitter and everywhere else. Please don't forget to rate, review and listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/racetraderpodcast/message

On this week's Truth to Power Happy Hour with Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) & Doug Lowry (Sowers of Justice Network), we bring you a conversation about Louisville’s past & future, moving from a colonial model to a cooperative model, with Delores Butler (President of the Louisville Community Grocery Board) and Teresa Lee, Historic Site Supervisor at Riverside: The Farnsley-Moremen Landing and part of the Louisville Coalition on the History of the Enslaved with representatives from Farmington Historic Plantation, Locust Grove, and Oxmoor Farm. The next Louisville Community Grocery pop-up shop will be 1-6pm Friday, May 28th at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1201 S. 26th St. Learn more at http://louisvillecommunitygrocery.com https://locustgrove.org/louisvillecoalitiononhistoryoftheenslaved/ http://slavedwellingproject.org https://riverside-landing.org/ Recommended books:
 1. Edward E. Baptist’s “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (2016) 2. Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice” https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html 3. Resmaa Menakem’s “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies” 4. Heather McGhee’s “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” 5. Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

On episode eighteen I'm talking with my friend Donnell Wyche. This conversation was a lot of fun and we talked about many important topics, including Liberation Theology (and why African American theologians have been overlooked), ethnic diversity in the Church, Critical Race Theory, and much, much more! About Donnell: The Reverend Donnell Wyche currently serves as Senior Pastor and Head of Staff at the Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor where he has served for 21 years. Passionate about the intersections of race, faith, politics, and technology, Pastor Donnell is a member of the racial equity team for the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's office and the co-coordinator of the Washtenaw Faith Leaders Forum. Pastor Donnell has advocated for peace and justice as the president of the board of the InterFaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) and has pursued issues of affordable, fair, and accessible housing as a board member of the Religious Action of Affordable Housing (RAAH). As a trained computer engineer, Pastor Donnell created, in partnership with the late Phyllis Tickle, the online home of The Divine Hours available at annarborvineyard.org. His latest technology project is Community Center for Churches, a software tool to help pastors better care for and shepherd their congregants, available at getcommunitycenter.com. Pastor Donnell is married to Maria, an early childhood literacy advocate and speech-language pathologist, and together, they are raising three multi-ethnic, spiritually engaged, peace-loving, politically aware children. You can reach Pastor Donnell online @donnell. Recommended Resources: "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism," by Edward E. Baptist (https://amzn.to/3uccTuc) "The Cross and the Lynching Tree," by James H. Cone (https://amzn.to/3axl2S8) "Jesus and the Disinherited," by Howard Thurman (https://amzn.to/3qzhd4h) "Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times," by Soong-Chan Rah (https://amzn.to/37sfwhT) "The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, & Religious Diversity in America," by Jeannine Fletcher Hill (https://amzn.to/3s6LOH4) Donnell's articles at Missio Alliance: https://www.missioalliance.org/author/donnell-wyche/ Check out the gear from The Happy Givers (https://bit.ly/3jZe6jW)

Fernanda Miguens é tradutora. Atualmente pesquisa o tema Filosofia da  Tradução nos Laboratórios Filosofias do Tempo do Agora e Laboratório X  de Encruzilhadas Filosóficas da UFRJ. A tradução de Corpos em aliança e a  política das ruas - notas sobre uma teoria performativa da assembleia,  da filósofa Judith Butler e A metade que nunca foi contada - a  escravidão e a construção do capitalismo norte-americano, do historiador  Edward E. Baptist, são os seus trabalhos mais recentes. Redes sociais do Laboratório Tempo do Agora (UFRJ) e da Rede Brasileira de Mulheres Filósofas. Rede Brasileira de Mulheres Filósofas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJW1f-7pafYDHJSBRpJZI0g  https://instagram.com/filosofas.brasil?igshid=19ebcoardr1xj  https://www.facebook.com/filosofas.org  Laboratório Tempo do Agora (UFRJ) Instagram: @tempodoagora Facebook, Youtube:  https://instagram.com/tempodoagora?igshid=uwkxicltf6vp  Tempo do Agora Site: www.tenpodoagora.org Link: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1143911264606246

Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity: Integrating Practices and Perspectives for 21st Century Leadership. His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his guided meditations on Patreon. ashby goodrum (preferred pronouns: they/we/us) works as an advanced practice nurse in primary and maternity care settings with significant experience as a bedside nurse/psychopomp and in midwifery. Some of their research and clinical interests include gender affirming care, birth equity, palliative care, cultural trauma and healing centered engagement, and transformative justice. ashby lives in Portland, Oregon which rests on traditional village sites of multiple indigenous tribes – such as the Multnomah, Clackamas, and Tualatin – who were among the land's first human caretakers. Books mentioned: Thomas Hubl - Healing Collective Trauma Karen and Barbara Fields - Racecraft ashby mentioned: Isabel Wilkerson - Caste Resmaa Menakem - My Grandmother's Hands also: Danielle Allen, Anthony Appiah, Mariame Kaba could also add: Albert Murray - Omni-Americans Carlos Hoyt - The Arc of a Bad Idea For a deeper understanding of transgenerational trauma (a reading list): Mariame Kaba and other transformative justice resources http://mariamekaba.com/publications/ https://survivedandpunished.org/building-accountable-communities/ https://transformharm.org/ Michael Yellow Bird expert on neurodecolonization and indigenous mindfulness https://vimeo.com/86995336 Karen Murphy explores how to prepare the way for civic healing https://onbeing.org/programs/karen-murphy-the-long-view-ii-on-who-we-can-become/ Ruha Benjamin on “New Jim Code" - range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahO1-saibU Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI&t=4s Robin D.G. Kelley on how capitalism has been racial from the beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ZwK2Zlw1U Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP_Rn8InPCo&feature=emb_title David R. Williams on how racism makes us sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzyjDR_AWzE&feature=youtu.be "How to Unlearn Racism" Scientific American article https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c0151be1137a6764abd89da/t/5f7276d98f12fd4b48de2efc/1601337050346/How+To+Unlearn+Racism+-+Scientific+American+October+2020.pdf Psychology of Radical Healing Syllabus https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c0151be1137a6764abd89da/t/5f4acedcaf548851802d0a8a/1598738150128/Radical+Healing+Syllabus.pdf ReRooted Podcast with Francesca M. Maximé https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-26-the-shift-from-fear-to-love-with-james-doty-md/ Maia Szalavitz on addiction as a learning disorder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XsbxM1jGnY Sarah Peyton, facilitator and neuroscience educator https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-41-unconscious-contracts-with-sarah-peyton/ bell hooks, groundbreaking cultural critic and author http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/growing-down/message

Dr. Edward E. Baptist and Dr. Hassan Jeffries are working together to reclaim stories around the runaway enslaved. This is the work that Bill Perkins is using to create the narratives. #FreedomontheMove

In this episode, the first page of three non-fiction books will be read:Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor FranklWe Are Still Here by Peter Iverson and Wade Davies, andThe Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist

Erik Johnsen is teaches history at Portland Community College, University of Portland, and Southern New Hampshire University. In this episode, Erik discusses his academic and professional background, his research into Austrian nationalism between World War I and the early Cold War, and life as a full-time part-time instructor. This episode’s recommendations: Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, updated ed. (Princeton University Press, 2017), https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173276/american-crucible Edward E. Baptist, The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2016), https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/edward-e-baptist/the-half-has-never-been-told/9780465097685/ Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Penguin, 2011), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190696/the-warmth-of-other-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/9780679763888/ Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford University Press, 2017), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-republic-for-which-it-stands-9780199735815?cc=us&lang=en&

Karen explains why we are enough to implement the changes we want to see using lessons learned from The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist. This is the last installment in this book series.

I’ve been learning from, and arguing with, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig for a decade now. We have a long-running debate over whether money or polarization is the root cause of our political ills. But our debate works because we share a crucial belief: Bad institutions overwhelm good individuals. In his latest book, America, Compromised, Lessig is doing something ambitious: He’s offering a new definition of institutional corruption, then showing how it plays out in politics, academia, the media, Wall Street, and the legal system. This is a definition of corruption that doesn’t require any individual to be corrupt. But it’s a definition that, if you accept it, suggests much of our society has been corrupted. Here, Lessig and I discuss what corruption is, how to understand an institution’s purpose, whether capitalism is itself corrupting, our upcoming books about the media, how small donors polarize politics, Lessig’s critique of democracy, why good people are particularly susceptible to institutional corruption, whether we should ban private money in politics, and ways to reinvent representative democracy. So, you know, nothing too big or heady. Book recommendations: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalismby Edward E. Baptist Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Powerby Shoshana Zuboff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slavery was an integral part of the American republic from the moment of independence until the abolition of the so-called “peculiar institution” with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865. The social and economic impact of the slave system, however, are much larger in terms of both time and geography. In this episode, Bob and Ben speak with Edward Baptist about slavery's origins, its evolution, and how enslaved people's work laid the foundation for modern capitalism. He also shares stories of the people who suffered under- and those who profited from- the inhumane system of American slavery. Dr. Edward E. Baptist is Professor of History at Cornell University and author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014), which won the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize. The Half Has Never Been Told is available as an audio book on libro.fm. Road to Now listeners can go to libro.fm & get a 3-month membership for the price of one (3 audiobooks for just $14.95) w/ promo code RTN. Click here to get The Half Has Never Been Told or get started by checking out our libro.fm playlist, which features books by past RTN guests. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher. The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. For more on this and all other episodes of RTN check out our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com

Apologies for the audio trouble.  We are still working out the kinks of our sound for interviews.This week, we interview Bruce Neuberger.  A 60's radical, who unlike many of his generation, has stayed radical all his life.  He is a Maoist who still exposes and fights Capitalism and all the inequality that comes with it. He has also written a book on his time organizing in the fields of Salinas CA in an excellent book, entitled "Lettuce Wars". Here Bruce shares his thoughts about struggle of the 60s and today as well as his conception of Socialism. What's Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes:    Googleplaymusic:  stitcher:Readings/links recommended by Bruce.There's a new video just out by Avakian called Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Make Revolution I'd like to draw attention to.The one title I can think of would be in the beginning with my name, Author of Lettuce Wars, Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California. The New Communism by Bob Avakian  Science and Revolution An interview with Ardea Skybreak  The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. By Edward E. Baptist. New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. xxvii, 498 A People's History of the United States by Howard ZinnBIRDS CANNOT GIVE BIRTH TO CROCODILES, BUT HUMANITY CAN SOAR BEYOND THE HORIZON PART 1: REVOLUTION AND THE STATE  BIRDS CANNOT GIVE BIRTH TO CROCODILES, BUT HUMANITY CAN SOAR BEYOND THE HORIZON Part 2: BUILDING THE MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTION  The Unknown Cultural Revolution by Dong Ping Han Monthly Review Press 2009 The Battle for China’s Past by Mobo Gao Pluto Press, 2008

Please enjoy this bonus excerpt, courtesy of the Recommended podcast, featuring Jesmyn Ward recommending Edward E. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told.

This week we’re talking with Fhatima Paulino and Carlos Saavedra from the Ayni Institute. We’re learning about the critical perspective of a long and global view of history to help us understand how long change takes and where our problems come from. We’re slowing down to care for our bodies and family members with illness, learning about collective work in indigenous traditions, Ayahuasca and people looking to the south for healing and spiritual direction, reciprocity and right relationship, and responding to appropriation at the collective level. There are some really great resources accompanying this week’s episode, so make sure to scroll all the way down to see those! ---- NEW FEATURE on the podcast this week: AFFIRMATIONS We're hosting a new segment each week that is a time for us to feature community voices and words; to uplift people, organizations, and communities that are embodying the values of healing justice. For a sliding scale donation, you can submit your own personal shout-out to spread love on the airwaves! CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR AFFIRMATION: https://healingjustice.typeform.com/to/YjvuU2   This week’s AFFIRMATIONS come from Adam and Vero thanking Survivor Theater Project, and Lissy celebrating Black Visions Collective. Thank you for sharing community love! ---- ABOUT OUR GUESTS: CARLOS SAAVEDRA & FHATIMA PAULINO OF AYNI INSTITUTEAYNI INSTITUTE began as a coaching, training and incubating institute for organizations, movement builders and community organizing leaders. Ayni is currently producing The Mysteries of the Andes, a nine documentary series by Director Jose Huaman Turpo and Producer Alejandrina Calancha. Their vision is to preserve the ancestral traditions of indigenous groups in the Andes and Amazons of Peru from a holistic perspective, which means that those communities share their stories, their culture, and their wisdom through their own voices. More at www.ayni.institute CARLOS SAAVEDRA migrated to Boston, MA at the age of 12 with his parents as an undocumented student. At 16 years old, he became active in the immigrant rights movement fighting for equal access to higher education for undocumented youth, and became the national coordinator for the United We Dream Network, the first immigrant youth national organization. Carlos was chosen as the 2010 Progressive Activist of the Year by Nation Magazine. FHATIMA PAULINO is the daughter of immigrants from the Philippines and Mexico. Since 2017 she has been Co-Coordinator of the Memory Program at the Ayni Institute where she is currently focused on the documentary Voices That Heal, which is about the cosmovision, healing practices and almost extinct languages of 4 indigenous villages in the Peruvian Amazon. The documentary will premiere in Boston on April 21st during Ayni’s Yachay (Wisdom) Seminar ( www.ayni.institute/seminar ). Before joining the Ayni team, Fhatima was a community organizer as part of the PICO national network and then as a full-time volunteer with the Cosecha Movement.   PRACTICE: Download the corresponding practice called “Releasing to Pachamama” to hear Fhatima guide you through a simple earth reconnection practice. You’ll need a quiet place, either indoors or outdoors, where you can lay on the floor. Practices post on Thursdays. RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: You can see a video of the powerful ritual of Q'ESWACHAKA that Fhatima describes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_RZyK4C3LY&list=PLeJeAirMA52rPapulAtGPfIVFsJQDyYNF   Carlos’ Reading List The Structure of World History — Kojin Karatani El Saqueo Cultural de America Latina — Fernando Baez An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert Harvest of Empire — Juan Gonzalez The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist Andean Cosmovision by Oakley Gordon Nacion Culebra — Spanish only http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/snakenation.pdf Learn more about the Yachay Seminar in Boston: www.ayni.institute/seminar JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org    Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter   We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU: Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In this episode, Annalee Newitz recommends The Mount by Carol Emshwiller and Jesmyn Ward recommends The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist. This episode of Recommended is sponsored by Spinning by Tillie Walden. To enter the giveaway of all twelve of the books sponsoring this season of Recommended, go to FierceReadsRecommended.com. You can subscribe to Recommended in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or in your podcast player of choice. The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 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. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence. 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. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery’s end—and created a culture that sustains America’s deepest dreams of freedom. Edward E. Baptist is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and House Professor and Dean at the Carl Becker House at Cornell University.      

An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014) challenges popular conceptions of that region that imagine it as a land of proud men, genteel ladies, and an antiquated, inefficient system of labor. The slavery that Baptist uncovers is dynamic, relentless, brutal, and extremely profitable. Surviving it, he shows, was an impressive accomplishment all its own. And its role in driving the development of American capitalism in the formative years of the republic raises troubling questions about the legacy of slavery in contemporary times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014) challenges popular conceptions of that region that imagine it as a land of proud men, genteel ladies, and an antiquated, inefficient system of labor. The slavery that Baptist uncovers is dynamic, relentless, brutal, and extremely profitable. Surviving it, he shows, was an impressive accomplishment all its own. And its role in driving the development of American capitalism in the formative years of the republic raises troubling questions about the legacy of slavery in contemporary times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014) challenges popular conceptions of that region that imagine it as a land of proud men, genteel ladies, and an antiquated, inefficient system of labor. The slavery that Baptist uncovers is dynamic, relentless, brutal, and extremely profitable. Surviving it, he shows, was an impressive accomplishment all its own. And its role in driving the development of American capitalism in the formative years of the republic raises troubling questions about the legacy of slavery in contemporary times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014) challenges popular conceptions of that region that imagine it as a land of proud men, genteel ladies, and an antiquated, inefficient system of labor. The slavery that Baptist uncovers is dynamic, relentless, brutal, and extremely profitable. Surviving it, he shows, was an impressive accomplishment all its own. And its role in driving the development of American capitalism in the formative years of the republic raises troubling questions about the legacy of slavery in contemporary times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014) challenges popular conceptions of that region that imagine it as a land of proud men, genteel ladies, and an antiquated, inefficient system of labor. The slavery that Baptist uncovers is dynamic, relentless, brutal, and extremely profitable. Surviving it, he shows, was an impressive accomplishment all its own. And its role in driving the development of American capitalism in the formative years of the republic raises troubling questions about the legacy of slavery in contemporary times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices