The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil RightsAn indispensable reference to the issues of slavery, the movment toward emancipation and civil rights over 500 years in the Americas and the Caribbean.
Harry Harmer is co-author of Cassell's BLACK HANDBOOK: THE PEOPLE, HISTORY AND POLITICS OF AFRICA and THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (1977) and the soon-to-be published Martin Luther King, in Sutton publising's new Pocket Biographies series. |
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Contents
Outline chronology of the end to slavery 15141980 | 51 |
America 17662000 | 101 |
the United States 16641865 | 109 |
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The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights H. J. P. Harmer No preview available - 2001 |
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