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  • Emancipated blacks often targeted for relocation to the tropics

    Feb 19, 2018 11:00 am by Craig ChamberlainResearch
    Professor Ikuko Asaka. Photo by L.B. Stauffer

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    • Professor Ikuko Asaka. Photo by L.B. Stauffer

    Every significant emancipation of black enslaved people came with efforts to move the freed people off the continent, says Illinois professor Ikuko Asaka