Nonfiction about Early America

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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,341 ratings
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Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history, Volume I Book 1)
Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history, Volume I Book 1) 4.37 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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America at 1750: A Social Portrait
America at 1750: A Social Portrait 3.67 avg rating — 147 ratings
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans 3.59 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America 4.17 avg rating — 11,143 ratings
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
American Colonies: The Settling of North America 4.08 avg rating — 4,547 ratings
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation 3.92 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America 3.84 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for The New World
The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for The New World 3.27 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit 4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 4.14 avg rating — 257 ratings
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience 3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies
The Cultural Life of the American Colonies 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland 3.95 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict 3.68 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity 3.94 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America 4.13 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony
The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony 3.75 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Everyday Life in Early America
Everyday Life in Early America 3.72 avg rating — 520 ratings
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief And Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief And Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke 3.59 avg rating — 774 ratings
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The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet 4.04 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Jamestown Brides: The Untold Story of England's 'Maids for Virginia'
The Jamestown Brides: The Untold Story of England's 'Maids for Virginia' 3.47 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim
Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim 4.13 avg rating — 227 ratings
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A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest 3.60 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England
Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England 3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony
Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony 3.67 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Thanksgiving: The True Story
Thanksgiving: The True Story 3.54 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 3.99 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America 4.03 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691
Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 4.07 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647
Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647 3.50 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy 3.52 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1
Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1 4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America 4.16 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America 3.65 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America 3.88 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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Franklin on Faith
Franklin on Faith it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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American Environmental History: Part One
American Environmental History: Part One really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Killing of Reverend Kay: A Hidden Murder in Colonial Virginia
The Killing of Reverend Kay: A Hidden Murder in Colonial Virginia 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 3.93 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Ottissippi The Truth about Great Lakes Indian History and The Gateway to the West
Ottissippi The Truth about Great Lakes Indian History and The Gateway to the West 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia 4.01 avg rating — 958 ratings
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A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 3.92 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware, 1609-1664
The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware, 1609-1664 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude
Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Home Life in Colonial Days (Dover Books on Americana)
Home Life in Colonial Days (Dover Books on Americana) 3.78 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England 3.81 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Roanoke: The Lost Colony--An Unsolved Mystery from History
Roanoke: The Lost Colony--An Unsolved Mystery from History 3.75 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts 3.63 avg rating — 14,862 ratings
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The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James
The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James
by: Bob Deans
3.99 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Wordy Shipmates
The Wordy Shipmates 3.68 avg rating — 23,889 ratings
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The Horse of the Americas
The Horse of the Americas 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun 4.31 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Sexual Revolution in Early America
Sexual Revolution in Early America 3.98 avg rating — 137 ratings
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African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (The American History Series)
African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (The American History Series) 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.95 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Child Life in Colonial Days
Child Life in Colonial Days 3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Longhorns
The Longhorns 4.17 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 4.21 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Dutch New York Histories: Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage
Dutch New York Histories: Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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If You Lived In Colonial Times
If You Lived In Colonial Times 3.91 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World 4.12 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
A History of Stepfamilies in Early America 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty 4.24 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Bleed, Blister, Puke and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
Bleed, Blister, Puke and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine 3.72 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America 4.07 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier 3.80 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather 3.99 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction
The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction 3.67 avg rating — 313 ratings
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke 3.59 avg rating — 774 ratings
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The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution
The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution 3.63 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830
Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Do's and Don'ts of Yesteryear: A Treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom
Do's and Don'ts of Yesteryear: A Treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom 4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England 3.84 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Spanish Official Account of the Attack on the Colony of Georgia, in America, and of its Defeat on St. Simons Island by General James Oglethorpe
The Spanish Official Account of the Attack on the Colony of Georgia, in America, and of its Defeat on St. Simons Island by General James Oglethorpe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life 3.96 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Oglethorpe in Perspective : Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
Oglethorpe in Perspective : Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Oglethorpe in America
Oglethorpe in America 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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First Generations: Women in Colonial America
First Generations: Women in Colonial America 3.66 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Great White Lies; Dr. Walter Plecker, Eugenics, Melungeons, and Virginia Genealogy
The Great White Lies; Dr. Walter Plecker, Eugenics, Melungeons, and Virginia Genealogy
by: M.D. Rice
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Daily Life in Colonial New England
Daily Life in Colonial New England 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Publications of James Edward Oglethorpe
The Publications of James Edward Oglethorpe it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race 3.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People 3.83 avg rating — 977 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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Children of Perdition: Melungeons And the Struggle of Mixed America (Melungeon Series)
Children of Perdition: Melungeons And the Struggle of Mixed America (Melungeon Series) 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America 3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America 3.34 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide
The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom
Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia (Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, & Literature
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia (Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, & Literature 3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings
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