A Political History of Slavery: Being an Account of the Slavery Controversy from the Earliest Agitations in the Eighteenth Century to the Close of the Reconstruction Period in America, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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