Who we are
AMERICAN LEGACY BOOKS, located in Washington, DC, is the publisher of The I WAS A SLAVE Book Collection that has a website at https://iwasaslave.com and of The American Slaves Book Collection as described on this website, https://americanslaves.com.
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