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Dr. Betty Wood

Sad news to report first. Since I published Slaves Selling in the Deep South (below) based in part on the work of historian Betty Wood, I was saddened to learn that Betty had died just days earlier. Plans for a scholarship in her name at Girton, her college at Cambridge University, are afoot, and I will report back once those emerge. Here…