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In the heartland of 19th century America, amid a roaring sea of
racism and hatred, a mixed-race community existed where blacks
lived as equal citizens with whites. Schools and churches were
completely integrated, blacks and whites married and power and
wealth were shared between the races. Starting in the 1860s, the
people of Covert, Michigan, broke both the laws and barriers to
attempt what then seemed impossible: to love ones neighbour as
oneself! Far from serving as a beacon, amidst America's turmoil the
story of Covert was forgotten, swept aside by those who found its
very existence threatening, the memory of it wiped out by the
passage of time. Now, in A Stronger Kinship, Anna-Lisa Cox gives us
an astonishing account of the residents of Covert, told through six
leading families who lived out this grand experiment in peaceable
justice. It presents an America that miraculously once was and a
vision of what it could become. This amazing history is a
revelation.
In the heartland of the United States 150 years ago, where racism
and hatred were common, a community decided there could be a
different America. Here schools and churches were completely
integrated, blacks and whites intermarried, and power and wealth
were shared by both races. But for this to happen, the town's
citizens had to keep secrets, break the laws of the world outside,
and sweep aside fear and embrace hope. In a historical-detective
feat, Anna-Lisa Cox uncovers the heartening story of this community
that took the road untaken. Beginning in the 1860s, the people of
Covert, Michigan, attempted to do what then seemed impossible: love
one's neighbor--regardless of skin color--as oneself. Drawing on
diaries, oral histories, and contemporary records, Cox gives us
intimate glimpses of Covert's people, from William Conner, the
Civil War veteran who went on to become Michigan's first black
justice of the peace, to Elizabeth Gillard, who, shipwrecked and
washed onto Covert's shores, ultimately came to love the unusual
community she would call home. In bringing these and other stories
of this small town to light, Cox presents a vision of what our
nation might have been, and could be.
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