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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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How the Word Is Passed

By Clint Smith ,

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Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
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Sugar and Slaves

By Richard S. Dunn ,

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Life on a Plantation
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Life on a Plantation

By Bobbie Kalman ,

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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
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Back of the Big House

By John Michael Vlach ,

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The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661
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The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661

By Carla Gardina Pestana ,

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The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century
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The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century

By Robert Louis Stein ,

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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
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Working Cures

By Sharla M. Fett ,

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Making Ireland British, 1580-1650
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Making Ireland British, 1580-1650

By Nicholas Canny ,

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Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
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Tropical Babylons

By Stuart B. Schwartz (editor) ,

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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii
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Pau Hana

By Ronald Takaki ,

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The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762
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The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762

By Elise Pinckney (editor) , Marvin R. Zahniser (editor) ,

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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
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Doctoring Freedom

By Gretchen Long ,

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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
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A Hard Fight for We

By Leslie A. Schwalm ,

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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: An African American Heritage Book
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

By Frederick Douglass ,

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Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand
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Blood and Dirt

By Jared Davidson ,

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The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
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The Family Tree

By Karen Branan ,

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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Rebellion and Revolution on a Virginia Plantation
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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom

By Rhys Isaac ,

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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
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Lanterns on the Levee

By William Alexander Percy ,

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Accounting for Slavery
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Accounting for Slavery

By Caitlin Rosenthal ,

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