Complicity

By Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jennifer Frank

Book cover of Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

Book description

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…

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1 author picked Complicity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Three veteran journalists without a regional axe to grind but only a desire to find and communicate the historical facts present a compelling argument that slavery was a national, not merely a Southern, problem. Their findings are truly an inconvenient truth that anti-Southern historians must face if they sincerely want to be objective chroniclers of our nation’s history.

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