New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth
- ISBN-10
- 0791478017
- ISBN-13
- 9780791478011
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Author
- Alan J. Singer
Description
Challenges readers to rethink the way we view the nation’s past and race relations in the present.
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