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Memoir
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Literature
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Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage. New York: Scribner, 1990.
Graphic Novels
Blaufarb, Rafe and Liz Clarke. Inhuman Traffic: The International Struggle Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade, A Graphic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
D’Salete, Marcelo. Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves. Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, 2019.
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