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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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All God's Dangers

By Theodore Rosengarten ,

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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
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Slaves Without Masters

By Ira Belin ,

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Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
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Flight and Rebellion

By Gerald W. Mullin ,

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Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction
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Exodusters

By Nell Irvin Painter ,

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In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80
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In Search of Canaan

By Robert G. Athearn ,

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The Black Towns
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The Black Towns

By Norman L. Crockett ,

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Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
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Slow Fade to Black

By Thomas Cripps ,

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Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks
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Ethnic Enterprise in America

By Ivan Hubert Light ,

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Elbow Room
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Elbow Room

By James Alan McPherson ,

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The Hero And the Blues
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The Hero And the Blues

By Albert Murray ,

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Hue and Cry: Stories
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Hue and Cry

By James Alan McPherson ,

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Speak Out In Thunder Tones: Letters And Other Writings By Black Northerners, 1787-1865
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Speak Out In Thunder Tones

By Dorothy Sterling ,

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I Love Myself When I am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
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I Love Myself When I am Laughing

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