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Dreams of Africa in Alabama
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Sylviane A. Diouf |
Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage i… |
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Barracoon
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Alice Walker,Zora Neale Hurston,Ibram X. Kendi |
The true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "black cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. |
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The journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878
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Josiah Gorgas |
Josiah Gorgas was best known as the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Born in 1818, he attended West Point, served in the US Army, and later, after marrying Amelia Gayle, daughter of a f… |
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Old Alabama Town
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Mary Ann Neeley |
"Old Alabama Town is a visual and historical chronicle of one of the South's important architectural landmarks - four blocks of 19th-century buildings restored to their original condition, collective… |
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