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• Title beginning with…Becoming African in America : Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic
•  Author beginning with…Sidbury, James (Last name first)
• Subject beginning with…African Americans -- History -- To 1863 (Browse list of Subject Headings-LCSH)

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