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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present

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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

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Our South: Black Food Through My Lens

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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul

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Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861

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Justice Be Done: A Caleb Knowles Mystery

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How We Gather Matters: Sustainable Event Planning for Purpose and Impact

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How the South Turned Red: From a Democratic Past to a Republican Present

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Free Black Charlestonians in Debate: The Complete Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, 1847-1858

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