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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin
Oneworld Publications
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9781780746456
2015
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin
Picador USA
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9780805094534
2014
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin
Picador USA
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9781250062109
2015
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A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin
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Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
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The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, and Elizabeth Oglesby
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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (American Empire Project)
Greg Grandin
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The Contours of American History (Second Edition)
William Appleman Williams and Greg Grandin
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Who Is Rigoberta Menchu?
Greg Grandin
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin
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The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War
Greg Grandin
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Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Greg Grandin
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The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)
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American Slavery and Abolitionism
Slave Patrols : Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard Historical Studies)
Sally E. Hadden
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Women's Slave Narratives
Annie L. Burton
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I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives (Library of Black America series, The)
Charles Johnson (Foreword) and Yuval Taylor (Editor)
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Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (California World History Library)
Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker
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The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
Steven Hahn
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John Brown's Trial
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs (The John Harvard Library)
Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, and John S. Jacobs
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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
Christina Snyder
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
C. S. Manegold
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The Abolitionist Imagination (The Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)
Andrew Delbanco, Daniel Carpenter, John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay
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John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution
Staughton Lynd
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From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
Jacqueline L. Tobin
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Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Marcus Rediker
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Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Carol Faulkner
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
Katherine C. Mooney
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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
Cheryl Janifer Laroche (Author)
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Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865
T. Stephen Whitman (Author)
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The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking
Joel Quirk
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Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader
Herbert Aptheker
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Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
Matthew Salafia
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Slavery and American Economic Development
Gavin Wright
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The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
William Caleb McDaniel
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Fugitive Slave on Trial: the Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage
Earl M. Maltz
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Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery
Earl M. Maltz
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War's Desolating Scourge: The Union's Occupation of North Alabama
Joseph Wesley Danielson
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The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey
Edwin Fuller Torrey
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
Jonathan M. Bryant
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The Scorpions Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
James Oakes
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Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics
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Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Adam Rothman
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
David Eltis
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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
James Oakes (Author)
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Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860
Watson W. Jennison
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Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad
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Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
Betty DeRamus
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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
Lea Vandervelde
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha
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From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761
Brycchan Carey
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American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Daniel Rasmussen (Author)
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Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
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The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within U.S Slave Culture
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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Slavery's Capitalism
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Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870
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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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Slave Escapes & the Underground Railroad in North Carolina
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On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848
Dale W. Tomich
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New Frontiers of Slavery
Dale W. Tomich (editor, contributor)
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey
Dannis Rizzo
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Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke
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Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values: Antebellum Political Economists, 1819-1848
Allen Kaufman
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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
Herbert George Gutman
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The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
Philip D. Curtin
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American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund Sears Morgan
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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen
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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
Andrew Delbanco
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
William L. Andrews (editor)
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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
Kevin Waite
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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Barbara Krauthamer
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The Liberator: Voice of the Abolitionist Movement (Words That Changed History Series)
Stephen Currie
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The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Peter Charles Hoffer
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Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
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Douglass: Autobiographies (Library of America College Editions)
Frederick Douglass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Slave Ships and Slaving
George Francis Dow
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (Penguin Classics)
Frederick Douglass, Houston A. Baker, and William Lloyd Garrison
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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
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Slavery in New York
Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris
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A Voice from Harper's Ferry
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The Slave Trade
James Walvin
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American to the Backbone: The Life of James W. C. Pennington, the Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists
Christopher Webber
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner (Author)
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The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
Eugene D. Genovese
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Nell Irvin Painter
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)
Frederick Douglass and John David Smith
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Harriet Tubman : The Moses of Her People (Dover Books on Americana)
Sarah Bradford
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Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson (Author)
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John Brown, Abolitionist
David S. Reynolds
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Black Slaveowners
Larry Koger
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)
Frederick Douglass
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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Sylviane A. Diouf
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Edition)
Norman R. Yetman
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Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
Sterling Stuckey
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
William and Ellen Craft
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Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings
Frederick Douglass
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist (Author)
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The Underground Railroad Records
William Still and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
Norman R. Yetman
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Ned Sublette
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner (Author)
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Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania
Cooper H. Wingert
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Jeff W. Grigg
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The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
Gene A. Smith
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The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives
Devon W. Carbado
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Vintage)
Jill Lepore
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker
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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Penguin Classics)
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Vincent Carretta
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The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry
Truman Nelson and Mike Davis
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John Brown's War Against Slavery
Robert E. McGlone
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We are the Revolutionists: German-speaking Immigrants & American Abolitionists After 1848
Mischa Honeck
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The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 (New Edition) (Verso World History Series)
Robin Blackburn
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Slave Rebellions and Uprisings
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
Jacqueline L. Tobin
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Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad
William A. Owens
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Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
Kenneth Greenberg (editor)
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American Negro Slave Revolts
Herbert Aptheker
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Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
Joao Jose Reis and Arthur Brakel
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Haiti: A Slave Revolution : 200 Years After 1804
Pat Chin (Editor), Sara Flounders, and Gregory Dunkel
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Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and James M. McPherson
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Slave Revolts in Antiquity
Theresa Urbainczyk
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Denmark Vesey
David Robertson
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
Herbert Aptheker
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