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Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War

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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

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