ISBN10: 0345467833, ISBN13: 9780345467836, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Based on the critically-acclaimed supplement published by The Hartford Courant- an intimate, compelling, and shocking examination of the North's role in what is an indelible part of American consciousness, the institution of slavery.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 ChronicleThe 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0345467833, ISBN13: 9780345467836, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Based on the critically-acclaimed supplement published by The Hartford Courant- an intimate, compelling, and shocking examination of the North's role in what is an indelible part of American consciousness, the institution of slavery.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 ChronicleThe 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 ...
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