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Language: en
Pages: 122
Authors: Elizabeth Alexander
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09 - Publisher:

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Offers a collection of poems with themes ranging from race, memory, and Southern culture to African American celebrities including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali,
River of Dark Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: Walter Johnson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-26 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Robert E. May
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-03 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed in
The Pursuit of a Dream
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Janet Sharp Hermann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-10 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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This fascinating history set in the Reconstruction South is a testament to African-American resilience, fortitude, and independence. It tells of three attempts
Her Dream of Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 498
Authors: Beverly Lowry
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-20 - Publisher: Vintage

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“I am a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South; I was promoted from there to the wash-tub; then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from ther