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Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873
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The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in the Antebellum Free Communities
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Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England America, 1780-1865
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Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
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Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
(2003)
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence
(2003)
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
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One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
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The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio
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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
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Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911
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Early African American Print Culture
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Dangerous Goods
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Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War
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Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
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Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor.
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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
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Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning
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