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Calvin Schermerhorn grew up in Southern Maryland on a landscape in which slavery was hidden. Now a historian and professor at Arizona State University researching African American inequality and U.S. slavery, he works to bring to light that troubled history.

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	Narrativa de William Wells Brown, escravo fugitivo by William Wells Brown, Tâmis Parron (Organização da coleção), Calvin Schermerhorn (Goodreads Author) (Prefácio) 4.22 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1847 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert (Editor), Seth Rockman (Goodreads Author) (Editor)(Contributor), William Hughes (Narrator) 4.09 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery 3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) by Henry Goings, Calvin Schermerhorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Plunkett (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story by Beverly Greene Bond (editor), Susan Eva O'Donovan (Editor), Greg Downs (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison by Enrico Dal Lago (Contributor), Calvin Schermerhorn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Karen Ryder (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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