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Three female civil rights pioneers
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Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince
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The Gilded Age
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Escaping slavery in the American South
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The Demerara slave uprising
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The Harder They Fall
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Black cowboys on screen
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Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello
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African-American women’s battle for the vote
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Apartheid: everything you wanted to know
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