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The Last Days of Louisiana Red

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The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) is a detective story set amid the racial violence of Berkeley in the 1960s. Flight to Canada (1976) depicts the anachronistic adventures of an enslaved man from the American Civil War era who escapes to freedom via bus…
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