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Baptist's work also appears at a time when films, television shows, and documentaries are introducing an increasingly wider audience to this history. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told arrives within this watershed moment in the historiography, as a plethora of slavery studies have prompted new understandings of an old institution.

The vast body of scholarship on slavery has noticeably shifted in the last two decades, and the institution of slavery now has a prominent place in national conversations about U.S. Baptist anchors his study in the eighty-year period between the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War, tracing the experience of enslaved people through trade, travel, separation, labor, and violence. He asserts that their exploitation in the cotton fields, through violent force, enabled the United States to prosper, expand, and become a world leader in cotton production. Baptist vividly describes the ways enslaved people shaped the development of modern capitalism. In The Half Has Never Been Told the historian Edward E.

The other half has never been told