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Kevin Waite

Kevin Waite is an associate professor of history at Durham University and the author of West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. His next book is a biography of Biddy Mason funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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The Slave Labor That Built Los Angeles

City Hall and a federal courthouse—but no plaque—stand near the site where Indigenous workers were auctioned.