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R.j.m. Blackett
R. J. M. Blackett, a professor of history at Indiana University, is author of Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860, and Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American History.
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