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The Emancipation Proclamation
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African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history
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How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe
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The failings of emancipation
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Escaping slavery in the American South
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The Demerara slave uprising
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African Europeans
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How slavery fuelled the British empire
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An Atlantic slave war
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