Slavery in the US: Systems and Ideology (nonfiction)

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TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management 4.23 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) 4.45 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands 3.79 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery 3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery 3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing 4.49 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War 4.33 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America 4.11 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World 4.23 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South 4.03 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 12,342 ratings
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Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South
Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism
Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Slavery in America
Slavery in America 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South
Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,858 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by: J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household 4.29 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 4.44 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser. Book 1)
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser. Book 1) 4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions" 3.55 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,216 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
Liberalism: A Counter-History 4.39 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry 4.47 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves 4.09 avg rating — 105 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,103 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1)
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback)
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback) 4.10 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,885 ratings
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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics 3.94 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues-then and Now
Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues-then and Now 4.44 avg rating — 1,888 ratings
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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America 3.91 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition 4.22 avg rating — 272 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology 4.14 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America 4.06 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War
A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Slavery and the American South
Slavery and the American South 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics 4.30 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (American Beginnings, 1500-1900) 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean 4.28 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court 3.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation 4.12 avg rating — 140 ratings
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When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War
When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation 4.32 avg rating — 663 ratings
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy 4.28 avg rating — 504 ratings
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800 3.86 avg rating — 147 ratings
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A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War 3.90 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development 4.08 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy 4.40 avg rating — 487 ratings
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House 3.86 avg rating — 4,108 ratings
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Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory
Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity 3.47 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress 4.39 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made 4.03 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery 4.24 avg rating — 690 ratings
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The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States 3.88 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Among His Slaves: George Mason's Struggle with Slavery
Among His Slaves: George Mason's Struggle with Slavery 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series)
Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 3.69 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market 4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration 4.11 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery
The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom 4.49 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution 3.97 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861 3.94 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 3.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Slaves in the Family
Slaves in the Family 4.04 avg rating — 3,020 ratings
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World 3.95 avg rating — 96 ratings
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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding 3.92 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books)
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series)
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South 4.09 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles 4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet 4.01 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life
Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life 3.14 avg rating — 95 ratings
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