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Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey, Relative to The Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage (Burlington, NJ: Printed for "The New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," by I. Neale, 1794), by New Jersey Supreme Court, ed. by Joseph Bloomfield and New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
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African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), ed. by Gayraud S. Wilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
The Black Church and Marxism: What Do They Have to Say to Each Other (New York: Institute for Democatic Socialism, 1980), by James H. Cone, contrib. by Michael Harrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon (page images at LOC)
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
The History of the Negro Church (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1921), by Carter Godwin Woodson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The "Negro Pew": Being an Inquiry Concerning the Propriety of Distinctions in the House of God, on Account of Color (Boston: I. Knapp, 1837), by Harvey Newcomb (multiple formats at Google)
Universal Negro Catechism: A Course of Instruction in Religious and Historical Knowledge Pertaining to the Race (New York: University Negro Improvement Association, 1921), by George Alexander McGuire (page images at HathiTrust)
Annals of the Poor: Containing The Dairyman's Daughter (With Considerable Additions), The Negro Servant, and the Young Cottager (New Haven: Whiting and Tiffany, 1815), by Legh Richmond
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- "Negro Servant" section; HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Gospel Among the Slaves: A Short Account of Missionary Operations Among the Slaves of the Southern States (Nashville: Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, 1893), ed. by W. P. Harrison
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The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903 (Atlanta University Publications #8; Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903), ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois
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Pioneer Colored Christians (Clarksville, TN: W.P. Titus, 1911), by Harriet Parks Miller
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Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Upward Path: The Evolution of a Race (revised edition of "From Darkness to Light"; New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, 1909), by Mary Helm
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The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Brand Plucked From the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch (Cleveland: Printed for the author by W. F. Schneider, 1879), by Julia A. J. Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
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- illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com
A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years (tract #96; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, ca. 1866), by G. L. Foster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
- illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
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- multiple formats at Google
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray (Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, c1926), by Mrs. L. P. Ray and L. P. Ray (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury, in the County of Glocester, and State of New Jersey, on Saturday the 8th Day of July Last, To the People of Colour; To Which Is Added His Dying Confession or Declaration; Also, a Copy of a Letter to His Wife, Written the Day Previous to His Execution (Philadelphia: The Purchasers, 1797), by Abraham Johnstone (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY (Lexington, KY: A. W. Elder, 1854) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African: Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend (New York: J. C. Totten, 1810), by George White (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
Catechism for the Use of the Methodist Missions, First Part (Charleston: Published by John Early, 1853), by William Capers (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
- multiple formats at archive.org
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The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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- multiple formats at archive.org; title page missing
The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. ("The Black Spurgeon"), Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City (Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902), by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman (Philadelphia: Collins, 1863), by Elizabeth (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Say amen, brother! Old-time Negro preaching: a study in American frustration (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by William H. Pipes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907 (G. W. Jacobs & company, 1907), by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
The role of the negro church in the Negro community of Detroit. ([Ann Arbor, 1935), by Henry Allen Bullock (page images at HathiTrust)
The urbanization of the Negro church in Detroit; second semester report to the Earhart Foundation for Community Leadership per Dr. R. D. McKenzie. ([Ann Arbor], 1935), by Henry Allen Bullock (page images at HathiTrust)
The religious development of the Negro in Virginia (Michie Co., 1914), by Joseph B. Earnest (page images at HathiTrust)
Churches and voluntary associations in the Chicago Negro community. (W.P.A. district 3, 1940), by St. Clair Drake and United States. Work Projects Administration (Ill.) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro's church,. (Russell & Russell, 1933), by Benjamin E. Mays (page images at HathiTrust)
The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States (Thomas Purse, 1842), by Charles Colcock Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Dr. Walker (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Silas Xavier Floyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
God struck me dead; religious conversion experiences and autobiographies of Negro ex-slaves. (Nashville, Tenn., 1945), by Fisk University. Social Science Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
The Catholic church and the American Negro (St. Joseph's society press, 1930), by John Thomas Gillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The Church and the Negro. Five editorial articles from The Church Standard. (The Church Standard, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
The united negro: his problems and his progress, containing the addresses and proceedings the Negro young people's Christian and educational congress, held August 6-11, 1902 (D. E. Luther publishing co., 1902), by I. Garland Penn and John W. E. Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Essays and pamphlets on antislavery. (Negro Universities Press, 1970) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A brand plucked from the fire. An autobiographical sketch (Printed for the author by W. F. Schneider, 1879), by Julia A. J. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro community within American Protestantism, 1619-1844 (Christopher Pub. House, 1953), by Leonard L. Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
Separation or continuity, which? (Baltimore : H.H. Smith, [1893], 1893), by I. L. Thomas and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Politics in the pews : the political mobilization of Black churches (University of Michigan Press, 2008), by Eric L. McDaniel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Slave-conversion in South Carolina, 1830-1860 (University of South Carolina, 1924), by Susan Marea Markey Fickling (page images at HathiTrust)
The American negro, a study. (Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1907), by Samuel Jackson Fisher and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen (page images at HathiTrust)
The Gospel among the slaves. A short account of missionary operations among the African slaves of the Southern States. (AMS Press, 1973), by W. P. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
Reformation and unity .... : can the leopard change his spots, or the Afro-American his status? (Hamilton Print Co., 1913), by J. Arthur Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D. : with a short history of the C.M.E. Church in America and of Methodism. (Printed for the author [by] Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1916), by Isaac Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
A call upon the church for progressive action, to elevate the colored American people. (s.n., 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
A sketch of the religious history of the Negroes in the South ([New York?, 1914), by R. C. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
Thoughts on the religious instruction of the negroes of this country. (E. J. Purse, printer, 1848), by William S. Plumer (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the Meeting in Charleston, S.C., May 13-15, 1845, on the religious instruction of the Negroes : together with the report of the committee, and the address to the public. (B. Jenkins, 1845), by S.C.) Meeting on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes (1845 May 13-15 : Charleston and Daniel Elliott Huger (page images at HathiTrust)
The dispensations in the history of the church and the interregnums (The author, 1898), by Benj. T. Tanner and African Methodist Episcopal Church (page images at HathiTrust)
A catechism, of Scripture doctrine and practice, : for families and Sabbath schools : designed also for the oral instruction of colored persons. (John M. Cooper. ;, 1844), by Charles Colcock Jones, Thomas Purse, John M. Cooper, Perkins & Purves, and Trow & Co Leavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro church in rural Virginia (Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1930), by C. Horace Hamilton and John Malcus Ellison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pastoral letter of the Rt. Rev. William Meade, asst. bishop of Va., to the ministers, members, and friends, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Virginia, on the duty of affording religious instruction to those in bondage. Delivered in the year 1834 - Reprinted by the Convocation of Central Virginia in 1853. (Ellyson, 1853), by William Meade (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial of the Convocation of the Colored People in the diocese of North Carolina presented to the Diocesan Convention of 1916. (s.n.], 1916), by Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina. Convocation of the Colored People and Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina. Convention 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
Relations of the church to the colored race (s.n., 1880), by William Bell White Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the Negro church (The Associated Publishers, 1921), by Carter Godwin Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
The white peril (1919), by W. H. Moses, Randall K. Burkett, and National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Foreign Mission Board (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (Nashville, Tenn. : Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday-School Union, 1891., 1891), by Daniel Alexander Payne, C. S. Smith, and A.M.E. Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
The progress of a race (Elmira, N.Y. : Star-Gazette Co., 1910., 1910), by Zacharias A. Jones and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the Negro church (Washington, D.C. : Associated Publishers, [1921], 1921), by Carter Godwin Woodson, Randall K. Burkett, and Associated Publishers (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in holy writ (Philadelphia : [A.M.E. Book Concern], 1900., 1900), by Benj. T. Tanner, Charles Simpson Butcher, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
The colored race weighed in the balance (1883), by C. K. Marshall and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty years of religious progress : an emancipation sermon : delivered on the occasion of the emancipation semi-centennial, Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday, September 14th, 1913 (Philadelphia : A.M.E. Book Concern, [1913], 1913), by Levi Jenkins Coppin, Charles Simpson Butcher, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
Why I am a Methodist! : why I am an African Methodist! : historical facts, reasons why, and answers, etc. (Atlanta, Ga. : Times Book Print, 1891., 1891), by M. R. Wilson and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Students' oratory (Philadelphia : A.M.E. Book Concern, 1911., 1911), by Charles Simpson Butcher, S. E. Bailey, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in holy writ (Philadelphia : [A.M.E. Book Concern], 1902., 1902), by Benj. T. Tanner, Charles Simpson Butcher, Robert Weston Mance, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
How to study and teach the Bible (Nashville, Tenn. : Sunday School Pub. Board, [1922], 1922), by S. N. Vass, William L. Dawson, William L. Dawson Library (Emory University. General Libraries), and National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Sunday School Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Marching orders : annual addresses delivered to the Texas conferences of the A.M.E. Church ([Philadelphia?] : [A.M.E. Church?], [1922?]], 1922), by William Decker Johnson, Randall K. Burkett, Welborn Victor Jenkins, African Methodist Episcopal Church. Texas Conference, and African Methodist Episcopal Church (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro as a religious, social, and political factor ([Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified], [190-?], in the 1900s), by Kelly Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
Thoughts (Columbia, S.C. : Lewie Printing Co., [1920?], 1920), by Richard Carroll, William H. Crawford, T. H. Wiseman, A. W. Lamar, and Ida Kenniston (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Woman's Baptist State Educational Convention for the first nine years (Lynchburg, Va. : J.P. Bell Co., 1905., 1905), by Woman's Baptist State Educational Convention (Virginia) (page images at HathiTrust)
The ministry : the field for the talented tenth (Washington, D.C. : Murray Brothers Press, 1911., 1911), by Kelly Miller and D.C.) Murray Brothers Printing Company (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty years of freedom : an historical address from David George to Richard Boyd (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, 1913., 1913), by W. H. Moses and National Baptist Convention of the United States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical catechism of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Charlotte, N.C. : A.M.E. Zion Publication House, 1901., 1901), by African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Randall K. Burkett, C. R. Harris, and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Publication House (page images at HathiTrust)
First Baptist Church, North Fairmount Heights, Md. ([Maryland?] : [The Church?], [1915?]], 1915), by Md.) First Baptist Church (North Fairmount Heights, Carter Godwin Woodson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore, Md. : Church Advocate Press, 1915., 1915), by George F. Bragg and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
Hood's history ([Charlotte, N.C.?] : [A.M.E. Zion Publishing House?], [1914], 1914), by J. W. Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the quarto-centennial conference ... at Charleston, S.C., May 15, 16 and 17, 1889 ... (Aldine ptg. house], 1890), by African Methodist Episcopal Church, South Carolina Conference and Benjamin William Arnett (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro in the Christian pulpit (Raleigh : Edwards, Broughton & Co., 1884., 1884), by J. W. Hood, Charles Douglass Martin, Sylvester Lemuel Corrothers, Henry M. Snyder, Atticus G. Haygood, and Emory University Archives (page images at HathiTrust)
"De ole plantation." (Walker, Evans, & Cogswell, printers, 1895), by J. G. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
My neighbor of another color (Augsburg publishing house, 1944), by Andrew Schulze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A scripture catechism, for the instruction of children and servants (Richmond [Va.] : Harrold & Murray, 1848., 1848), by Robert Ryland, Randall K. Burkett, Harrold & Murray, and King & Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
On the duties of servants (Published by "The Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South Carolina", 1842), by Thomas Bacon and Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
The church among the Negroes. (s.n., 1909), by Samuel H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
The Church and the Negro : a statement concerning our work within the borders of the United States (Board of Missions, in the 1910s), by Samuel H. Bishop and Episcopal Church. Board of Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
East Central States Bureau (Woman's Home Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, in the 1910s), by E. L. Albright and Ohio) Woman's Home Missionary Society (Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
Our work among the Negroes : a historical sketch (Woman's Home Missionary Society, 1913), by E. L. Albright and Ohio) Woman's Home Missionary Society (Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
"Within our doors" : our work among the Negroes (Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1913), by S. O'H. Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in American life (Oxford Book Co., 1954), by Harry J. Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Negro and his religion (Cokesbury Press, 1924), by Elmer Talmage Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Rules for the Society of Negroes, 1693 (New York : [publisher not identified], 1888., 1888), by Society of Negroes, George Henry Moore, and Cotton Mather (page images at HathiTrust)
The upward path: the evolution of a race (Jennings & Graham, 1909), by Mary Helm (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes and memoirs of William Boen, a coloured man, who lived and died near Mount Holly, New Jersey (Gutenberg ebook)
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D.: ("The Black Spurgeon") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City, by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (Gutenberg ebook)
The Holy Piby, by Robert Athlyi Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
Pioneer Colored Christians, by Harriet Parks Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country, by William S. Plumer (Gutenberg ebook)
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman, by Old Elizabeth (Gutenberg ebook)
Hartford, August 4, 1778. An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ. ([Hartford : Printed by Watson and Goodwin?, 1778]), by Jupiter Hammon (HTML at Evans TCP)
An evening's improvement. Shewing, the necessity of beholding the Lamb of God. : To which is added, a dialogue, entitled, The kind master and dutiful servant. / Written by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro man belonging to Mr. John Lloyd, of Queen's Village, on Long-Island, now in Hartford. (Hartford: : Printed for the author, by the assistance of his friends., [1790?]), by Jupiter Hammon (HTML at Evans TCP)

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