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“I admire how much blood they’re able to squeeze from really stony documents. They give us a sense of the sounds, sights and textures of daily life for some of the poorest people in the city, from records that, if you looked at them, would seem to tell you nothing.” Read more...
Jane Kamensky, Historian
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Histories
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Life and Fate
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On War
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The Interesting Narrative
by Olaudah Equiano