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Contents List of Illustrations  Foreword  Introduction  Chapter . Free African Americans before the Civil War  Chapter . Enslaved African Americans before the Civil War  Chapter . Life after Emancipation  Chapter . From Discrimination to Participation during the Twentieth Century  Chapter . Voting, Desegregation, and Economic Opportunity in the Late Twentieth Century  Conclusion  Notes  Bibliographic Essay  Index  ...

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