Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War + Hospital Sketches + Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America + Black Americans...
- ISBN-10
- 0312621744
- ISBN-13
- 9780312621742
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-04
- Publisher
- Bedford/st Martins
- Authors
- Louisa May Alcott, Michael P. Johnson, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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