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Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Pages: 592
Pages: 592
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The South played a prominent role in early American history, and its position was certainly strong and proud except for the “peculiar institution” of slaver