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Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
Seth Rockman (Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback
9780801890079
2009
$32.00
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Seth Rockman
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