Edward E. Baptist

Senior Advisor & Principal Investigator

Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D. is a Professor of History at Cornell University. He is an internationally-recognized historian of the 19th-century United States, particularly the history of the enslavement of African Americans in the South and its intersections with American capitalism.  He is the author of numerous books, including The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014). He is also the Co-Founder of Freedom on the Move: a database of fugitives from slavery.