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"I was just another drunk tourist girl in the neon tapestry, tarted up, having zero luck, and self-medicating." An American woman staggers through the night in Phnom Penh. "Is this all that I am to you?" A comely Filipina serves rich clients aboard an elevator to space. "If he wanted to keep an eye on my door, he was welcome to it, but I wasn't slowing down." A truck driver races down the interstate with both headlights extinguished. In his beguiling collection, Simeon Sanchez weaves seven stories around a single theme: encountering the truth in dark places.
This book examines the community of free African Americans who lived in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
Class I. Foreign relations. 6 v. 1st Cong.-20th Cong., 1st sess., April 30, 1789-May 24, 1828.--class II. Indian affairs. 2 v. 1st Cong.-19th Cong., May 25, 1789-March 1, 1827.--class III. Finance. 5 v. 1st Cong.-20th Cong., 1st sess., April 11, 1789-May 16, 1828.--class IV. Commerce and navigation. 2 v. 1st Cong.-17th Cong., April 13, 1789-Feb. 25, 1823.--Class V. Military affairs. 7 v. 1st Cong.-25th Cong., 2d sess., Aug. 10, 1789-March 1, 1838.--class VI. Naval affairs. 4 v. 3d Cong.-24th Cong., 1st sess., Jan 20, 1794-June 15, 1836.--class VII. Post Office department. 1 v. 1st Cong., 2d sess.-22d Cong., Jan. 22, 1790-Feb. 21, 1883.--class VIII. Public lands. 8 v. 1st Cong.-24th Cong., July 1, 1790-Feb. 28, 1837.--class IX. Claims. 1 v. 1st Cong., 2d sess.-17th Cong., Feb. 5, 1790-March 3, 1823.--class X. Miscellaneous. 2 v. 1st Cong.-17th Cong., April 17, 1789-March 3, 1823
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An index to the American State Papers listing land grants and claims of early America between the years 1789-1837, listed by the individuals name.