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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

Puckett, Newbell Niles

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From FOLK BELIEFS OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO by Newbell Niles Puckett; Copyright © 1926 by the University of North Carolina Press

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Folk beliefs of the southern Negro.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

Record Harvested From

The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African Americans
  3. Mississippi
  4. Shamans

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