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Slavery - United States - History

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    Minutes of the proceedings of the Fourth Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States , assembled at Philadelphia, on the third day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and continued, by adjournments, until the ninth day of the same month, inclusive.

    | Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States (4th) 1797 (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Date: 1797
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    From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.

    | Amy Dru Stanley | Date: 1998
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    The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class / David R. Roediger.

    | David Roediger | Date: 2007
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    Effects of slavery, on morals and industry By Noah Webster, Jun. Esq. Counsellor at law and member of the Connecticut Society for ehe [sic] Promotion of Freedom. [Two lines from Shakespeare].

    | Webster, Noah 1758-1843. | Date: 1793
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    Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 / Eric Nellis.

    | Nellis, Eric Guest, 1938- | Date: 2025
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