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What the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus can teach us about Southern Black life in AmericaIn Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the p...
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