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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America

by Vincent Harding · 1981

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This is the story of the violation of Black Africa and the bondage of its peoples in another land. Harding resurrects forgotten heroes and traces the struggle of their descendants to keep the spirit and dreams of an uprooted people alive.

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long · 472 pages

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