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A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.

The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’

The schooner America was a technological marvel. In the summer of 1851, just weeks after her launching at New York, she crossed the Atlantic and sailed to an upset victory against a fleet of champions.

The Schooner Pilgrim's Progress (hc) - Starr

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (hb) - Evitts Dickinson

Celadon Books Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland (pb) - Shane

Random House Trade The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (pb) - Swarns

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (hb) - Fields & Black

American Palate Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future (hb) - Livie

Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation of the Limits of Liberalism (pb) - Baum

The Trouble Of Color by Martha S. Jones

The Negro Motorist Green Book (hc) - Victor H. Green

Old Line Plate: Stories & Recipes from Maryland (pb) - Harris