This is an excellent deep dive into the truth about slavery's relationship with the creation of modern capitalism; both in the United States and worldwide. Baptist (ironic name indeed) uses first hand accounts from formerly enslaved persons as well as the very records of enslavers who were proud of their "production". I also enjoyed the way he broke down the chapters; by focusing on each part of a slave's body that was destroyed in slavery, he described how our modern world was literally built by and on Black bodies.