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Complicity

How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

Anne Farrow Joel Lang Jenifer Frank Cheryl Magazine

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English
Ballantine
15 December 2006
For readers of Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family-- a groundbreaking, newsworthy look at how the North was as dependent on America's Peculiar Institution -- slavery -- as the South.

A book that will be a long term seller in trade paperback and appeal to readers of history, civil rights activists, students and teachers.

A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North's role in American slavery

""The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation's closet.""-San Francisco Chronicle

The North's profit from-indeed, dependence on-slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits-run, in some cases, by abolitionists-and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line.

Culled from long-ignored documents and reports-and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings-Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do- shed light on America's past.
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Imprint:   Ballantine
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   283g
ISBN:   9780345467836
ISBN 10:   0345467833
Pages:   269
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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