Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
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Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditat…
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