ebooks Allies for Freedom and Blacks on John Brown by Benjamin Quarles in History

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The Cape Fear River runs through Bladen County; North Carolina; population 33;000. On its western bank; in the town of Tar Heel; sits the largest slaughterhouse in the world. Deep below the slaughterhouse; one may find the arrowheads of Siouan-speaking peoples who roamed there for a millennium. Nearer the surface is evidence of slaves who labored there for a century. And now; the slaughterhouse kills the population of Bladen County; in hogs; every day.In this remarkable account; Wise traces the history of today's deadly harvest. From the colonies to the slave trade; from the artificial conception and unrecorded death of one single pig to the surreal science of the pork industry—whose workers continue the centuries of oppression—he unveils a portrait of this nation through the lives of its most vulnerable. His explorations ultimately lead to hope from a most unlikely source: the Baptist clergy; a voice in this wilderness proclaiming a new view of creation.