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Blue laws and Black codes : conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia
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- Creator
- Peter Wallenstein
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xi, 270 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 129915963X, 9780813924878, 9780813922607, 0813924871, 0813922607, 9780813922614, 0813922615
- OCLC
- ocm52706481, ocn842962095, ocn831678590
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-254) and index.
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