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Book Title: Freedom And Resistance: A Social History Of Black Loyalists ...
Number of Pages: 268 Pages
Publication Name: Freedom and Resistance : a Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Black Studies (Global), Caribbean & West Indies / General, United States / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Christopher Curry
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Contested Boundaries Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
