Negro Slavery: Or, a View of Some of the More Prominent Features of that State of Society, as it Exists in the United States of America and in the Colonies of the West Indies, Especially in JamaicaR. Taylor, 1823 - 92 pàgines "The object of the present publication is to furnish to the public a plain, authentic and unvarnished picture of Negro slavery, not as it may have existed at some antecedent period of time, but as it exists at the present moment, both in the United States of America and in the European Colonies of the West Indies, which have been people by imported Africans. ... beginning with the United States."--Page 1. |
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Negro Slavery: Or, a View of Some of the More Prominent Features of that ... Zachary Macaulay Visualització completa - 1823 |
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