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May/June 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 3 • Book Reviews |

The Hidden History of Slavery

By David S. Reynolds

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David S. Reynolds is a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. His most recent book is Lincoln’s Selected Writings (Norton 2015). His other books include Walt Whitman’s America (winner of the Bancroft Prize and Ambassador Book Award), Beneath the American Renaissance (winner of the Christian Gauss Award), John Brown, Abolitionist (winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award), Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America, and Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson.

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