| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.1

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Anna-Lisa Cox. A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 288. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. Paper, $19.95.
Historians often look for various types of lessons in past conflicts, but Anna-Lisa Cox encourages us to find .lessons of hope and promise. in her account of Covert, Michigan (p. 208). A Stronger Kinship describes how small acts of cooperation shaped Covert into an example of racial integration in the United States between 1860 and 1896.	1
Covert became home to settlers of African American, German, English, and Native American descent in the 1860s. In describing how these settlers interacted, Cox explores themes such as travel, justice, and friendship. Establishing a home in a barely settled region required teamwork. People could not build barns or acquire livestock without community support. In addition, there were problems related to personal safety. For example, black travelers faced threats from slave catchers as well as mob violence. Most towns were made up of people with similar racial backgrounds, and the residents of such towns provided mutual support. Sometimes they also resorted to violence or segregation to keep others away from their schools, neighborhoods, or political organizations.	. . .

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