Freed persons
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Olio
Bad news for outlaws
Sick from freedom
The Price of a Child
Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of the Civil War
The force of a feather
The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction
Black Indian slave narratives
Slaves without Masters
John F.W. Ware and his work for the freedmen
Saving Savannah
A love woven true
The new man
Beyond slavery
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free black in a two-story white house, North
Road to Black Ned's Forge
Toussaint Louverture
Slaves, freedmen, and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius
Zulu heart
Giants
Black Cloud Rising
Freedom colonies
No man's yoke on my shoulders
Familia Caesaris
Bricks without straw
Mine eyes have seen the glory
The freedmen's book
A Union officer in the Reconstruction
Slavery and freedom in colonial Brazil
The slaves' war
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