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Book #256 of 2020: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers A difficult read, full of brutal details drawn from the first-hand testimony of enslaved persons and their enslavers alike. Each new specific abuse — each beating, each rape, each division of families — is …

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