| Author | : April Merleaux |
| File Size | : 49,8 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unknown |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 17 June 2024 |
| ISBN | : 146962253X |
| Pages | : 302 pages |
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Get BookFrom the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.
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