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Authors: Françoise N. Hamlin
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Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black free
Mississippi Solo
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Pages: 260
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The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.
Local People
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A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by