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The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-24 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed th
They Were Her Property
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Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom
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Traces the story of how slaves seized opportunities that emerged from North Carolina's pre-Civil War modernization and economic diversification to protect their