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Up from Slavery
American slavery, American freedom
Juneteenth
Time on the cross : the economics of American Negro slavery
The sugar masters
The story of Harriet Tubman
Political history of secession to the beginning of the American Civil War
Secret and sacred
Rebels against slavery
The Dreaded Comparison
Harvest of Hate
Snow-storm in August
New perspectives on race and slavery in America
Abolitionists
American Slavery-American Freedom
Amos Fortune
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
The African-American slave trade
Narrative of William W. Brown
Juneteenth
A visit to the United States in 1841
Strange new land
Slaves on a Southern plantation
Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman
The slave power: its character, career, & probable designs: being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest
A dissertation on slavery
Slave life on the plantation
Slavery and the American board of commissioners for foreign missions
--If you lived when there was slavery in America
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