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Complicity : how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery / Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank of The Hartford courant, with Cheryl Magazine, images editor ; foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrow, Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Race relations.
- Economic conditions.
- History.
- Slave trade.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States.
- Slavery--Northeastern States--History.
- Enslaved persons--Northeastern States--History.
- Slave trade--United States--History.
- Slave trade--Northeastern States--History.
- Slave trade--Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Northeastern States--History.
- Northeastern States.
- Northeastern States--Economic conditions.
- Northeastern States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 269 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2005]
- Summary:
- Rich with historical documents and photos, this narrative dispels the myths surrounding the history of slavery in this country, revealing the North's deep dependence on slave commerce and its own exploitation of slave labor.
- Contents:
- 1 Cotton Comes North 3
- The Carriage Trade
- 2 First Fortunes 45
- Transplanted Yankees
- 3 A Connecticut Slave 61
- 4 Rebellion in Manhattan 77
- 5 Newport Rum, African Slaves 95
- Hell's Gate
- 6 New York's Slave Pirates 121
- Last Survivors
- 7 The Other Underground Railroad 139
- 8 Hated Heroes 155
- 9 Philadelphia's Race Scientist 179
- 10 Plunder for Pianos 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0345467825
- OCLC:
- 58526694
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