The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism runs 19.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ron Butler (about 13.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 19.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 40 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
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What our data says
- At 19.8 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ron Butler
Ron Butler narrates 349 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,989 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
159 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is an audiobook by Edward E. Baptist: a 19.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Butler, released September 14, 2021, on the Social Science and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 19.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Butler
- Released
- September 14, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, The Americas, World
- ISBN
- 9781549112560
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism as an audiobook?
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism runs 19.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.2 hours.
Is The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism?
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is narrated by Ron Butler.
Is The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.2 hours, saving 6.6 hours.