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American Congo : the African American freedom struggle in the Delta /

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
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