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Primary Sources Elsewhere

Selected Bibliography

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  • Weber, Klaus. “Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History, ed. Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. This book is open-access.
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Contributors

Tanvir Ahmed, Hannah Barker, Richard Eaton, Craig Perry