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Fatima Shaik Considers Her Search Through Economie Journals March 15, 2021 In the 1950s, my father discovered a pile of wet ledgers on the back of a dump truck in our neighborhood. He brought them to our house, dried them on our sunny porch, and put them into the closet. In 1997, I opened and read them. What I found was a treasure trove, one that could contribute significantly to our understanding of Black history and literature. Approximately 3,000 pages of French handwriting distributed throu...