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Building a new world

by Philip Koslow · 1997

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Discusses the ways in which slaves from Africa influenced various aspects of life in the New World, including gold mining, cultivation of sugar and rice, herding livestock, and ironworking.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisslaveryslaveryMore like thisLess of this
Setting
USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 64 pages

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