How They Stopped Slavery: A New Perspective
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865
by James Oakes
June 6, 2013 issue
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David Brion Davis was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
How They Stopped Slavery: A New Perspective
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865
by James Oakes
June 6, 2013 issue
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by Hasia Diner
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edited by Jack Salzman and Cornel West
Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism
by Seth Forman
What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance
by Murray Friedman
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