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A Mercy
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Slavery today
Slavery and social death
The Known World
River of Dark Dreams
Silvia Dubois
To tell a free story
The Slave Ship
Disposable people
Twelve years a slave
Novel bondage
Exchanging our country marks
The Atlantic slave trade and British abolition, 1760-1810
For Whom the Belles Toiled
The Book of Negroes
Black ivory
Generations of Captivity
Black women writing autobiography
The slave trade, domestic and foreign
Narrative of William W. Brown
Slaves in Ancient Greece
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Bonded histories
Civil society and the state
Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs
Beyond slavery
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