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Tracing Their Steps (2019), by Bernice Alexander Bennett
Winner of the 2019 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for Historical Nonfiction – Family Histories from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage; and the 2020 International Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society Book Award for Non-Fiction, Short Story.
Freedmen of the Frontier,
volume 1 (2019),
by Angela Y. Walton-Raji
Freedmen of the Frontier, volume 2 (2020)
Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award for Historical Nonfiction – Genealogy, Research Methodology from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage.
Index of Students of the University of Virginia, 1825-1874 (2011),
by Jean L. Cooper.
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