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| Título | A Winter in the West Indies: Described in Familiar Letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery |
| Autor | Joseph John Gurney |
| Edição | 2 |
| Editora | J. Murray, 1840 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 20 fev. 2008 |
| Num. págs. | 282 páginas |
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