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The Legal Understanding of Slavery : From the Historical to the Contemporary Jean Allain

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Author: Jean Allain
Date: 25 Nov 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::416 pages
ISBN10: 0199660468
ISBN13: 9780199660469
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