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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1
United States. Work Projects Administration
History of England from the Accession of James II, vol2 chapter 6
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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