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John Blassingame (1940-2000)

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Huff, Christopher Allen

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Encyclopedia article about John Blassingame. A scholar and historian of slavery in the United States, Georgia native John Blassingame spent almost thirty years on the history faculty at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is best remembered for his book The Slave Community (1972) and for editing the papers of abolitionist and author Frederick Douglass.
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