Complicity
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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
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
Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—
In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 179
Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, so
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth cen