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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
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Avengers of the New World

By Laurent Dubois ,

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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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Tacky's Revolt

By Vincent Brown ,

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs ,

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The Half Has Never Been Told

By Edward E. Baptist ,

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
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Race and Reunion

By David W. Blight ,

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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Never Caught

By Erica Strong Dunbar ,

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

By Olaudah Equiano ,

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Barracoon

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
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Freedom National

By James Oakes ,

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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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Medical Bondage

By Deirdre Cooper Owens ,

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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
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Out of the House of Bondage

By Thavolia Glymph ,

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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The Slave Ship

By Marcus Rediker ,

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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
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In the Wake

By Christina Sharpe ,

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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
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The Impending Crisis

By David M. Potter ,

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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
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Apostles of Disunion

By Charles B. Dew ,

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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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The War Before the War

By Andrew Delbanco ,

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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
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Deep Roots

By Avidit Acharyo , Matthew Blackwell , Maya Sen

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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret

By Mary V. Thompson ,

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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800

By John Thornton ,

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American Slavery, American Freedom
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American Slavery, American Freedom

By Edmund S. Morgan ,

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There Are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime
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There Are No Slaves in France

By Sue Peabody ,

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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
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The Slave's Cause

By Manisha Sinha ,

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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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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
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The Reaper's Garden

By Vincent Brown ,

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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
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Coolie Woman

By Gaiutra Bahadur ,

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The Sealwoman's Gift
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The Sealwoman's Gift

By Sally Magnusson ,

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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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Tales from the Haunted South

By Tiya Miles ,

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Wake

By Rebecca Hall , Hugo Martínez (illustrator) ,

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Go Down, Moses
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Go Down, Moses

By William Faulkner ,

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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
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Laboring Women

By Jennifer L. Morgan ,

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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
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Illusions of Emancipation

By Joseph P. Reidy ,

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Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision
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Slaves on Screen

By Natalie Zemon Davis ,

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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
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The Empire of Necessity

By Greg Grandin ,

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Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
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Captives of Conquest

By Erin Woodruff Stone ,

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
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Runaway Slaves

By John Hope Franklin , Loren Schweninger ,

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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

By Helena Kelly ,

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
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Dispossessed Lives

By Marisa J. Fuentes ,

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Slave to Fashion
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Slave to Fashion

By Safia Minney ,

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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
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The Unknown American Revolution

By Gary B. Nash ,

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Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
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Transformations in Slavery

By Paul E. Lovejoy ,

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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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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica
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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

By Louis P. Nelson ,

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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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Contested Bodies

By Sasha Turner ,

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Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition
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Witnessing Slavery

By Sarah Thomas ,

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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
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Self-Taught

By Heather Andrea Williams ,

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Life on a Plantation
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Life on a Plantation

By Bobbie Kalman ,

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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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The Blacks of Premodern China
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The Blacks of Premodern China

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Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend
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Tara Revisited

By Catherine Clinton ,

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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

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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

By Kathleen M. Brown ,

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A Journey Through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
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A Journey Through Texas

By Frederick Law Olmsted ,

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Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
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Bleeding Kansas

By Nicole Etcheson ,

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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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Inhuman Bondage

By David Brion Davis ,

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The History of Mary Prince
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The History of Mary Prince

By Mary Prince ,

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

By James Oakes ,

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Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865
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Twice Condemned

By Philip J. Schwarz ,

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Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
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Reading the Man

By Elizabeth Brown Pryor ,

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Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Harriet Jacobs

By Jean Fagan Yellin ,

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The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
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The Slaves' Gamble

By Gene Allen Smith ,

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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay
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How the West Was Lost

By Stephen Aron ,

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The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist: America's Lost Musical Genius
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The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist

By Deirdre O'Connell ,

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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
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Mrs. Dred Scott

By Lea Vandervelde ,

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Slave and Citizen: The Classic Comparative Study of Race Relations in the Americas
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Slave and Citizen

By Frank Tannenbaum ,

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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By David Eltis , David Richardson ,

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Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
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Rebels in the Making

By William L. Barney ,

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
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Undercurrents of Power

By Kevin Dawson ,

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Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
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Finding Charity's Folk

By Jessica Millward ,

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The Invention of the White Race Vol II
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The Invention of the White Race Vol II

By Theodore W. Allen ,

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Stories of Freedom in Black New York
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York

By Shane White ,

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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 Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867
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The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867

By Daniel B. Domingues da Silva ,

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Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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Behind the Scenes

By Elizabeth Keckley ,

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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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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

By Daina Ramey Berry ,

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An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
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An Intimate Economy

By Alexandra J. Finley ,

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away
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