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Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family really captures this book perfectly when he states that “[t]his book reveals a dirty secret about American business, and how commerce first boomed before the Civil War. Baptist unearths a big, nasty story: in the North and the South, slavery was the tainted fuel that kindled the fires of U.S. capitalism and made the country grow.” As a scholar of race in this country, I found this book thought-provoking and important. This country has never dealt with the fact that slavery built this country. Hopefully this book will help us finally do so.