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Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
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"This book explores the psychological experience of these soldiers and civilians during the end of the Civil War in North Carolina. Using letters, diaries, and accounts the book explores how deeply "hard war" hurt soldiers and civilians and shaped the memory of the war's end."--
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Examines the legacy of slavery by highlighting the continued preservation of monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.
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"This book documents the autobiographical stories and poems of Southeastern American Indian women whose hard work and daily fight to keep their communities well and safe is all too often disregarded by mainstream publications and the general public. ... Aimed at general readers and especially American Indian women themselves, [it] celebrates the voices of those in native communities in the US Southeast, a region rarely covered in other publications....
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"An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from...