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Book Title: The Problem Of Democracy In The Age Of Slavery: Garrisonian ...
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery : Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
Language: English
Publisher: LSU
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Slavery, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General, Historical, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: W. Caleb Mcdaniel
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
