plantation (nonfiction)

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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation 4.12 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation: Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy
The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation: Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation: Land, Litigation, and Southern Lives
The Croom Family and Goodwood Plantation: Land, Litigation, and Southern Lives 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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All Under Bank: Roswell King, Jr. and Plantation Management in Tidewater Georgia
All Under Bank: Roswell King, Jr. and Plantation Management in Tidewater Georgia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story 4.15 avg rating — 171 ratings
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William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida
William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South 4.18 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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The story of the Page-King Family of Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island and of the Golden Isles of Georgia
The story of the Page-King Family of Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island and of the Golden Isles of Georgia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast
Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books)
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 3.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South 3.90 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household 4.29 avg rating — 455 ratings
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From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta 4.65 avg rating — 91 ratings
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A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation, and ... Maritime Neighbors in Ancient and Modern...
A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation, and ... Maritime Neighbors in Ancient and Modern... it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Plantation to Nation: Caribbean Museums and National Identity
Plantation to Nation: Caribbean Museums and National Identity 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
Old Plantation Days Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War 3.74 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South 4.03 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Hamilton Plantation on Gascoigne Bluff
Hamilton Plantation on Gascoigne Bluff really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Savannah River Plantations: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society
Savannah River Plantations: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves 4.19 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner 3.69 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family
Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom 4.18 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South 4.14 avg rating — 549 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 3.67 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861 3.94 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves 3.98 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World 4.23 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History 4.09 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860
Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia
Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son 3.99 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865 - 1980
Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865 - 1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History 3.89 avg rating — 3,595 ratings
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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber 3.61 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley
Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia
Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales
Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Stillness in the Pines: The Ecology of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (The Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
A Stillness in the Pines: The Ecology of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (The Commonwealth Fund Book Program) 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco
The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization 3.98 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Fromajadas and Indigo:: The Minorcan Colony in Florida
Fromajadas and Indigo:: The Minorcan Colony in Florida really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Plantation South: Atlanta to Savannah and Charleston (Touring North America)
The Plantation South: Atlanta to Savannah and Charleston (Touring North America) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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"Early Glasgow Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean", Scottish Archaeological Journal, Sep 2010, vo. 31, No. 1-2 : pp. 115-136
"Early Glasgow Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean", Scottish Archaeological Journal, Sep 2010, vo. 31, No. 1-2 : pp. 115-136 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities (The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series)
Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities (The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity 3.47 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 3.67 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900) 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story 4.15 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery
The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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God's Children
God's Children 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management 4.23 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier
The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Emancipation of Robert Sadler: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-Century Plantation Slave
The Emancipation of Robert Sadler: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-Century Plantation Slave 4.32 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series)
Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Life & Labor On Butler's Island: Rice Cultivation in the Altamaha Delta
Life & Labor On Butler's Island: Rice Cultivation in the Altamaha Delta really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery 3.38 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary
Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Button Gwinnett: Failed Merchant, Plantation Owner, Mountebank, Opportunist Politician and Founding Father
Button Gwinnett: Failed Merchant, Plantation Owner, Mountebank, Opportunist Politician and Founding Father 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War (Brown Thrasher Books)
On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War (Brown Thrasher Books) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Wacissa Slave Canal
The Wacissa Slave Canal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South 4.25 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner 3.69 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Hammonds of Redcliffe
The Hammonds of Redcliffe 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt
Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Pipe Creek to Matthew's Bluff: A short history of Groton Plantation
Pipe Creek to Matthew's Bluff: A short history of Groton Plantation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Slavery behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Slavery behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space (American Crossroads) (Volume 72)
Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space (American Crossroads) (Volume 72) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings