The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North
- ISBN-10
- 0226983315
- ISBN-13
- 9780226983318
- Category
- Abolitionists
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1967
- Publisher
- Chicago, U. P
- Author
- Arthur Zilversmit
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- 1967
- 262 pages
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