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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Amazing grace : an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660-1810. Basker, James G. New Haven. 2002. ISBN 0-300-09172-9. OCLC 49743685.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Early American abolitionists : a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820. Basker, James G., Ahlstrom, Justine. New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 2005. ISBN 1-932821-06-6. OCLC 62205412.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Why documents matter : American originals and the historical imagination : selections from the Gilder Lehrman collection. Basker, James G., Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. New York. 2005. ISBN 1-932821-20-1. OCLC 60585761.
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- ↑ Tradition in transition : women writers, marginal texts, and the eighteenth-century canon. Ribeiro, Alvaro, 1947-, Basker, James G. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. ISBN 0-19-818288-0. OCLC 32013714.
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