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In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up
Troubling Transparency
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Authors: David E. Pozen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonica
Bondmen and Rebels
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: David Barry Gaspar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-02-28 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. U
The Sun Does Shine
Language: en
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"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Fleeing to Freedom on the Underground Railroad
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

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Uses letters, newspaper articles, biographies, and autobiographies to tell the Underground Railroad's stories of pain and courage.