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Yesenia Barragan at Harvard Book Store

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Yesenia Barragan discusses In Latin America You Could Be Free: An African American History, on the free and fugitive African Americans who looked south for freedom before the Civil War, after Chile, Colombia and Mexico had abolished slavery, some drawn by a Lincoln-backed colony scheme in Panama. Barragan, associate professor of history at Rutgers, is the author of Freedom’s Captives, winner of the American Historical Association’s Wesley-Logan Prize.