January Book Club

The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) will hold its next Zoom book club meeting on Tuesday, January 20 at 7 pm. All are welcome to attend.

The January 2026 Book Club selection will be Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank of The Hartford Courant. The North's profit from and dependence on slavery has been a well-kept and shameful secret. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative "Triangle Trade" of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits -- run in some cases by abolitionists -- and exposes northern plantations as well.

Culled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings—Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past.
APT members will find Zoom details in the Tour Talk newsletter the week of the meeting. Non-APT members who would like to participate in the January book club should email APT Secretary Pam Covey at [secretary@phillyguides.org](mailto:secretary@phillyguides.org) no later than 5 pm the day of the meeting to receive the Zoom link. Please join us!