This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, a

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In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narrat

Hunter is thrilled when 'cool kid' Connor invites him over after school, but what happens when the adventure gets out of hand? The Cave at Rattlesnake Mountain

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