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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
A Dreadful Deceit The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Author: Jacqueline Jones
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465036707
ISBN-10: 0465036708
Publication Date: 12/10/2013
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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