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A Stronger Kinship : One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
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A Stronger Kinship : One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith Hardcover - 2006

by Cox, Anna-Lisa

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Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.

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New York and Boston, USA: Little, Brown, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 278pp plus single section of black and white plate illustrations. Quarter bound in cloth over paper-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. In as new condition throughout. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped at edges). 8vo. In the mid 19th century, amid a sea of roiling racism in the United States, one community, in Covert, Michigan, decided that there was a different way - in this place schools and churches were integrated, blacks and white intermarried and power and wealth was shared.
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  • Title A Stronger Kinship : One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
  • Author Cox, Anna-Lisa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Impression
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown, New York and Boston, USA
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 010840
  • ISBN 9780803260184 / 0803260180
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Michigan
  • Library of Congress subjects Covert (Mich.: Township) - History - 19th, Covert (Mich.: Township) - Race relations -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007007192
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

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From the publisher

Originally published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Michigan, in the middle of the 1850s, in the middle of the century, in the middle of the nation, in the middle of a crisis that would soon tear it apart.

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About the author

Anna-Lisa Cox is the recipient of numerous awards for her research, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Award, a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, and a Pew Younger Scholars Fellowship.

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