Karen Hunter examines the visceral first chapter of Edward E. Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told, titled "Feet," which chronicles the harrowing "Second Middle Passage"—the forced migration of over one million enslaved people from the Upper South to the burgeoning cotton frontiers of the Deep South.

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