《complicity》是2006年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Anne Farrow。
基本介紹
- 中文名：complicity
- 作者：Anne Farrow
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780345467836
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Slavery in the South has been documented in volumes rangingfrom exhaustive histories to bestselling novels. But the North’sprofit from–indeed, dependence on–slavery has mostly been ashameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. In this startlingand superbly researched new book, three veteran New Englandjournalists demythologize the region of America known for toleranceand liberation, revealing a place where thousands of people wereheld in bondage and slavery was both an economic dynamo and anecessary way of life.Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the Triangle Trade ofmolasses, rum, and slaves that lucratively linked the North to theWest Indies and Africa; discloses the reality of Northern empiresbuilt on profits from rum, cotton, and ivory–and run, in somecases, by abolitionists; and exposes the thousand-acre plantationsthat existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, areeye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly fromslavery far from the Mason-Dixon line–including Nathaniel Gordon ofMaine, the only slave trader sentenced to die in the United States,who even as an inmate of New York’s infamous Tombs prison wassupported by a shockingly large percentage of the city; PattyCannon, whose brutal gang kidnapped free blacks from Northernstates and sold them into slavery; and the Philadelphia doctorSamuel Morton, eminent in the nineteenth-century field of “racescience,” which purported to prove the inferiority of African-bornblack people.Culled from long-ignored documents and reports–and bolstered byrarely seen photos, publications, maps, and perioddrawings–Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work thatactually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light onAmerica’s past. Expanded from the celebrated Hartford Courantspecial report that the Connecticut Department of Education sent toevery middle school and high school in the state (the original workis required readings in many college classrooms,) this new book issure to become a must-read reference everywhere.From the Hardcover edition.
作者簡介
Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank are veteran journalists for The Hartford Courant, the country’s oldest newspaper in continuous publication. Farrow and Lang were the lead writers and Frank was the editor of the special slavery issue published by Northeast, the newspaper’s Sunday magazine.Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of African American Lives.From the Hardcover edition.
