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Reviewed on October 1, 2005
These two revealing works take complementary approaches to the depth and breadth of slavery's scar on America's character. Expanding their award-winning investigative series for their newspaper's Sunday magazine, Northeast , two veteran reporters and an editor from Connecticut's Hartford Courant offer something of a macro view in Complicity . Peering out from a place where slaves hardly numbered more than 3000, Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jennifer Frank expose the breadth of the Colonial and antebellum North's immense profits from, and tenacious protection of, American Negro slavery. Their ten chapters fol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More