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- ↑ Cep, Casey. "The Long War Against Slavery". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
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- ↑ Basker, James G. 1952- (2012). American antislavery writings : colonial beginnings to emancipation. Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-196-1. OCLC 820378848.
- ↑ 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: 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Basker, James G. (1988). Tobias Smollett, critic and journalist. Newark: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-311-4. OCLC 15654091.
- ↑ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. The adventures of Roderick Random (Paperback ed.). Athens, Georgia. ISBN 978-0-8203-4603-8. OCLC 910110418.
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