Was the North part of the Slave Trade? Slavery’s Biggest Secret In part 1 of this two-part series on the North’s history as a slave region, journalist Anne Farrow, co-author of “Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery,” exposes the role of the North in the growth of slavery and institutionalized racism (slavery) in America and she reveals many surprising facts about the history of #slavery in America. Tony Brown’s Journal, “the most complete and thoughtful record