Grapevine in the slave market: African American geopolitical literacy and the 1841 Creole Revolt

The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades In The Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 203-233

  Troutman, Phillip ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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