Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
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Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in …