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5 September 2014

#notallslaveowners: the Economist complains that a book on slavery makes white people look bad

A book review in the Economist has called a book on slavery biased for painting white people as the villains.

By Media Mole

The Economist has run an extroardinary piece that apparently defends slave owners. Its review of a book on slavery, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist, suggests the book is biased for making white people look bad.

Here’s the review’s conclusion:

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