Black Farmers in America
- ISBN-10
- 0813128684
- ISBN-13
- 9780813128689
- Category
- Photography
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Author
- John Francis Ficara
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- 2012
- - pages
- Paperback
- Nova Science Publishers
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