| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. By Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank. (New York: Ballantine, 2005. xxx, 269 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-345-46782-5.)
On July 4, 2000, The Hartford Courant, America's oldest continuously operating newspaper, apologized for its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century advertisements for slaves. A year later, as headline-making lawsuits were being filed seeking reparations from Aetna and other Connecticut-based companies for having insured slaves, the Courant's editor asked the staff of Northeast, the paper's Sunday magazine, to investigate Connecticut's role in slavery. The result was "Complicity: How Connecticut Chained Itself to Slavery," a special issue of Northeast on September 29, 2002.	1
The enthusiastic public response to "Complicity" and a second special issue, "Beyond Complicity: The Forgotten Story of Connecticut's Slave Ships" (April 3, 2005), led a literary agent to encourage the lead writers, Anne Farrow and Joel Lang, and the Northeast editor, Jenifer Frank, to undertake a book-length project with an expanded focus. The result was Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.	. . .

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