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      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
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      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

ALFORD, TERRY. Prince among Slaves (1977). Excellent research and wonderful writing—the definitive account of the life of Adb Rahman Ibrahima.

AUSTIN, ALLAN D. African Muslims in Antebellum America (1997). A comprehensive history of Muslim slaves in America.

BARRY, BOUBACAR. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade (1998). The slave trade and the rise of Islam in the region that includes Ibrahima’s homeland.

BLASSINGAME, JOHN W. The Slave Community (1972). Description of slave society based largely on slave narratives.

CURTIN, PHILIP D. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (1967). Accounts by and about slaves, including Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, describing their experience in Africa and America.

GENOVESE, EUGENE D. Roll, Jordon, Roll (1975). Describes a “black nation” in the Old South based on familial and religious ties.

GUTMAN, HERBERT G. Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1976). Extensive analysis of the black family.

HOGAN, WILLIAM RANSOM, AND EDWIN ADAMS DAVIS. William Johnson’s Natchez (2 vols. 1951). The remarkable diary of a wealthy free black in antebellum Natchez.

KOLCHIN, PETER. American Slavery, 1619–1877 (1993). Comprehensive history of the development of slavery in the United States.

LEVINE, LAWRENCE W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness (1977). Survival of African culture in black America.

MARTIN, JONATHAN D. Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (2004). Argues that most slaves were hired out at some point during their lives and describes the hiring-out practice.

WEST, EMILY. Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South (2004). Like Ibrahima and Isabella, many other slave couples forged strong marital bonds despite the obstacles imposed by their enslavement.

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