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The Jamaican People 1880–1902: Pace, Class and Social Control. PATRICK BRYAN. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean. 1991, ix, 293 pp. £10.95.
’Broke by the War’: Letters of a Slave Trader. EDMUND L. DRAGO. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1991. xi, 152 pp. $24.95.
Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension. ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1991. xiii, 128 pp. £18.95.
The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racia Reform, 1885–1912. RALPH E. LUKER. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xiv, 445pp. $39.95.