“We Believed it to be honorable before God”: Religion in Enslaved Communities, 1840-1860
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عنوان ژورنال: The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2165-9915
DOI: 10.21061/vtuhr.v7i0.1