Coming in April 2025
​The Divided North traces two Maine families, one Black and one White, as they navigate the turbulent nineteenth century. The Rubys were well-known antislavery activists and Underground Railroad operatives; the Gordons, prominent ship masters—among them, the only American executed for participating in the transatlantic slave trade. These families’ experiences reveal what it meant to live in a free state during the age of slavery, with all the promise, disappointment, irony and hope that it entailed.
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Tens of thousands of immigrants came to New England during the 1600s. But few histories have detailed the lives of those who came by force. The Involuntary American chronicles the life and times of Thomas Doughty, an illiterate Scottish foot soldier who was captured and shipped to the New World against his will.