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To Be a Slave in Brazil: 1550-1888
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To Be a Slave in Brazil

By Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso ,

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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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Within the Plantation Household

By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ,

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Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control
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Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire

By K.R. Bradley ,

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Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830
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Way of Death

By Joseph Calder Miller ,

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The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
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The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

By Paule Marshall ,

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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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Young Frederick Douglass
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Young Frederick Douglass

By Dickson J. Preston ,

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The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State
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The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898

By James F. Warren ,

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Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia
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Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia

By Anthony Reid (editor) , Jennifer Brewster (editor) ,

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The Vines of Yarrabee
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The Vines of Yarrabee

By Dorothy Eden ,

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The Golden Goblet
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The Golden Goblet

By Eloise McGraw ,

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The Dilemma of a Ghost
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The Dilemma of a Ghost

By Christina Ama Ata. Aidoo ,

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The Slave Girl
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The Slave Girl

By Buchi Emecheta ,

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Conquerors and Slaves
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Conquerors and Slaves

By Keith Hopkins ,

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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
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The Peculiar Institution

By Kenneth M. Stampp ,

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Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution: Ten Essays
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Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution

By Staughton Lynd ,

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Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
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Testing the Chains

By Michael Craton ,

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Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership
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Lincoln and Black Freedom

By Lawanda Cox ,

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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
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Slavery and Social Death

By Orlando Patterson ,

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Slaves of the Volcano God
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Slaves of the Volcano God

By Craig Shaw Gardner ,

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Trade Wind
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Trade Wind

By M M Kaye ,

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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

By Jacqueline Jones ,

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Dragon's Blood
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Dragon's Blood

By Jane Yolen ,

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