The Road to Black Ned's Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier, Hardcover - Turk McCleskey

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By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summ...

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The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances with Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, together in one volume for the first time.

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