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Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook Hardcover - March 1, 2021 by Michael W. Twitty

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Reprint Edition
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Paperback – January 7, 2020
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Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Revised Edition
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COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War Hardcover – February 9, 2024
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The Message Hardcover – October 1, 2024
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

Homegoing Paperback – May 2, 2017
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