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Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "Great War."

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Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americansboth slave and freefrom the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath.

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Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean explores the experiences of enslaved Africans and their struggle to win freedom in the islands of the Caribbean. Gelien Matthews emphasizes the integral role blacks played in loosening the chains of slavery, by forcing their enslavers to make ever-increasing compromises, which ultimately led to the slaves total freedom.