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<br><br>This is a curated list of virtually accessible books that provide information on specific African American ancestors, historical context, and guidance to other resources.
<br><br>This is a curated list of virtually accessible books that provide information on specific African American ancestors, historical context, and guidance to other resources.
<br><br>The digital books are organized geographically, with books pertaining to the entire U.S. or multiple states listed under "U.S." followed by books for particular states. The digital access to these books may come from FamilySearch or elsewhere (see the "Access" column in the table). To access the FamilySearch books, users must have an account [https://www.familysearch.org/register/custom/1 here]. The books from the other websites do not require an account to read them, except for a few located at Internet Archive. You can create your free Internet Archive account [https://archive.org/account/signup here].  
<br><br>The digital books are organized geographically, with books pertaining to the entire U.S. or multiple states listed under "U.S." followed by books for particular states. The digital access to these books may come from FamilySearch or elsewhere (see the "Access" column in the table). To access the FamilySearch books, users must have an account [https://www.familysearch.org/register/custom/1 here]. The books from the other websites do not require an account to read them, except for a few located at Internet Archive. You can create your free Internet Archive account [https://archive.org/account/signup here].  
<br><br>This table will continue to grow, so please come back often. The Family History Library also houses hundreds of books on the shelves that contain valuable information for African American genealogy and research.
<br><br>This table will continue to grow, so please come back often. The FamilySearch Library also houses hundreds of books on the shelves that contain valuable information for African American genealogy and research.


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===Digital Books===
===Digital Books===


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|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858034290563&view=1up&seq=18 ''A brief sketch of the organization and services of the Fifty-Ninth Regiment of United States Colored Infantry, and biographical sketches'']||HathiTru
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/105693 ''African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/105693-african-american-genealogy-a-bibliography-and-guide-to-sources?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ''African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources'']||FamilySearch
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|[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/205158 ''Afro-American encyclopaedia : or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race, embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving'']||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/205158 ''Afro-American encyclopaedia : or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race, embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p00962134l&view=1up&seq=1 ''Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill'']||HathiTrust
|''[https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/bost/patriotsofcolor.pdf Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill]''||National Park Service
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|[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46181/46181-h/46181-h.htm ''The Forty-Third Regiment United States Colored Troops'']||Gutenberg
|[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46181/46181-h/46181-h.htm ''The Forty-Third Regiment United States Colored Troops'']||Gutenberg
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|[http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/636372 ''Who's who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States'']||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/636372 ''Who's who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/542528-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 6)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/542528 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 6)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437074-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 18)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/437074 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 18)]||FamilySearch
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!'''California'''
!'''California'''
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|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE94154 ''The Negro trail blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and from the diaries, old papers and conversations of old pioneers in the state of Californ'']||FamilySearch
|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE94154 ''The Negro trail blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and from the diaries, old papers and conversations of old pioneers in the state of Californ'']||FamilySearch
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!'''Connecticut'''
|{{FSC|758864|item|disp=''Chains unbound : slave emancipations in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut''}} ||FamilySearch
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!'''Florida'''
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|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4496197 ''Register of negro slaves and masters for 1805-1807, Knox County, Indiana Territory'']||FamilySearch
|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4496197 ''Register of negro slaves and masters for 1805-1807, Knox County, Indiana Territory'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/223595-redirection ''African Americans in and around Jefferson County'']||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/223595-redirection ''African Americans in and around Jefferson County'']||FamilySearch
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!Kentucky
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/344748-redirection ''Afro-American deaths of Boone thru [sic''] Boyle County, Kentucky, 1852-18 62''] ''||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/344748-redirection ''Afro-American deaths of Boone thru Boyle County, Kentucky, 1852-1862'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001993091g&view=1up&seq=1 ''Biographical sketches of prominent negro men and women of Kentucky : with introductory memoir of the author, and prefatory remarks showing the difference between American and British slave holders; also opinions of leading thinkers of the race'']||HathiTrust
|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001993091g&view=1up&seq=1 ''Biographical sketches of prominent negro men and women of Kentucky : with introductory memoir of the author, and prefatory remarks showing the difference between American and British slave holders; also opinions of leading thinkers of the race'']||HathiTrust
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|{{FSC|263609|item|disp=''Brief history of the colored churches of Frankfort, Ky''}}
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/288746-mt-moriah-cemetery-a-history-and-census-of-bowling-green-kentucky-s-african-american-cemetery?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ''Mt. Moriah Cemetery : a history and census of Bowling Green, Kentucky's African-American cemetery'']||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/288746 ''Mt. Moriah Cemetery : a history and census of Bowling Green, Kentucky's African-American cemetery'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/550424-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 1)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/550424 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 1)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/781888-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 2)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/781888 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 2)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/551835-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 3)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/551835 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 3)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/540262-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 5)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/540262 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 5)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/548424-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 8)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/548424 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 8)]||FamilySearch
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!'''Maryland'''
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!'''Michigan'''
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|[https://www.library.wmich.edu/digidb/freedmen/ ''Michigan manual of freedmen's progress'']||Western Michigan University
|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t45q50p5z&view=1up&seq=5 ''Michigan manual of freedmen's progress'']||HathiTrust Digital Library
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|[https://archive.org/details/quakermarriagesb00fros/page/n221/mode/2up ''Quaker marriages, births, deaths, slaves, Nine Partners M.M., Dutchess CO, NY'']||Internet Archive
|[https://archive.org/details/quakermarriagesb00fros/page/n221/mode/2up ''Quaker marriages, births, deaths, slaves, Nine Partners M.M., Dutchess CO, NY'']||Internet Archive
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!'''North Carolina'''
|[https://archive.org/details/historyofnegroba00whit/page/n9/mode/2up ''A history of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina'']||Internet Archive
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|[https://archive.org/details/09030981.4738.emory.edu/page/n1/mode/2up ''Annual report of the superintendent of Negro Affairs in North Carolina, 1865: with an appendix, containing the history and management of the freedmen in this department up to June 1st, 1865'']||Internet Archive
|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE7475641 ''The cradle of freedom : a history of the Negro in Rochester, western New York and Canada'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE3190830 ''Caswell County, North Carolina : land grants, tax lists, state census, apprentice bonds, estate records'']||FamilySearch
|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE9550415 ''Underground railroad in Tompkins County, (N.Y.)'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437117-census-of-slaves-1755?offset=10 ''Census of slaves, 1755'']||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437117-census-of-slaves-1755?offset=10 ''Census of slaves, 1755'']||FamilySearch
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!'''North Carolina'''
|[https://archive.org/details/historyofnegroba00whit/page/n9/mode/2up ''A history of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina'']||Internet Archive
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|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nc01.ark:/13960/t9q30qh9k&view=1up&seq=3 ''Colored Charlotte : published in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the Negro in the county of Mecklenburg and the city of Charlotte, North Carolina'']||HathiTrust
|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE3190830 ''Caswell County, North Carolina : land grants, tax lists, state census, apprentice bonds, estate records'']||FamilySearch
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|[http://www.afrigeneas.com/library/ncdeeds/ ''Enslaved ancestors abstracted from deed books, Granville county, North Carolina'']||Afrigeneas
|[https://www.loc.gov/collections/selected-digitized-books/?fa=segmentof:dcmsiabooks.slaveryinstateof00bass_0/&sb=shelf-id&sp=1&st=gallery ''Slavery in the State of North Carolina'']||Library of Congress
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|[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mountain_Masters/cbKd9e7ypoMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover ''Mountain masters, slavery, and the sectional crisis in western North Carolina'']||Google Books
|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nc01.ark:/13960/t9q30qh9k&view=1up&seq=3 ''Colored Charlotte : published in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the Negro in the county of Mecklenburg and the city of Charlotte, North Carolina'']||HathiTrust
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|[https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17097#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-626%2C0%2C4251%2C4364 ''Plantation memories of the Cape Fear river country'']||East Carolina University
|[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mountain_Masters/cbKd9e7ypoMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover ''Mountain masters, slavery, and the sectional crisis in western North Carolina'']||Google Books
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/502116-somerset-homecoming-recovering-a-lost-heritage?viewer=1&offset=0#page=147&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ''Somerset homecoming: recovering a lost heritage'']||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/502116 ''Somerset homecoming: recovering a lost heritage'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE7475641 ''The cradle of freedom : a history of the Negro in Rochester, western New York and Canada'']||FamilySearch
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|[https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE9550415 ''Underground railroad in Tompkins County, (N.Y.)'']||FamilySearch
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!'''Oklahoma'''
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|[https://archive.org/details/pictureofslavery00african/page/n3/mode/2up ''A picture of slavery, drawn from the decision of southern courts'']||Internet Archive
|[https://archive.org/details/pictureofslavery00african/page/n3/mode/2up ''A picture of slavery, drawn from the decision of southern courts'']||Internet Archive
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|[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0qr5379h&view=1up&seq=7 ''Memorial of the patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American slaveholder's rebellion : embracing a complete list of the names of all the volunteers from the county during the war, patriotic contributions by the citizens ...'']||HathiTrust
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|[https://archive.org/details/reportofjointsel05unit ''Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, made to the two Houses of Congress February 19, 1876'']||Internet Archive
|[https://archive.org/details/reportofjointsel05unit ''Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary Statehttps://cdm17168.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17168coll67/id/1995/rec/5 s, made to the two Houses of Congress February 19, 1876'']||Internet Archive
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!South Carolina
|[https://cdm17168.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17168coll67/id/1227/rec/4 Greenville, County Index of Enslaved Persons, 1787-1864]
|Greenville County Library
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|[https://cdm17168.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17168coll67/id/1995/rec/5 Laurens, County Index of Enslaved Persons, 1800-1868]
|Greenville County Library
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|[https://cdm17168.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17168coll67/id/1656/rec/6 Pendleton, District/Anderson County Index of Enslaved Persons, 1789-1864]
|Greenville County Library
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|[https://cdm17168.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17168coll67/id/2076/rec/7 Pickens, County Index of Enslaved Persons, 1828-1864]
|Greenville County Library
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|[https://cdm17168.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17168coll67/id/1467/rec/8 Spartanburg County Index of Enslaved Persons, 1787-1878]
|Greenville County Library
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!'''Tennessee'''
!'''Tennessee'''
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/560408-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 4)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/560408 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 4)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/552962-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 7)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/552962 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 7)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/781889-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 9)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/781889 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 9)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/562295-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 10)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/562295 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 10)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/565290-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 11)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/565290 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 11)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/562869-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 12)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/562869 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 12)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/557972-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 13)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/557972 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 13)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/552583-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 14)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/552583 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 14)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/558189-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 15)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/558189 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 15)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/448063-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 16)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/448063 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 16)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/443831-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 17)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/443831 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 17)]||FamilySearch
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|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437074-redirection ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 19)]||FamilySearch
|[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/437486 ''No land -- only slaves'' (Vol. 19)]||FamilySearch
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!'''Utah'''
!'''Utah'''
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