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Slavery In the United States
1.
Twelve Years a Slave
by:
Solomon Northup
4.22 avg rating — 123,134 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
by:
Frederick Douglass
4.44 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
by:
Catherine Clinton
4.07 avg rating — 3,262 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.92 avg rating — 239,367 ratings
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Lydia Parrish
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,763 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by:
Douglas A. Blackmon
4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by:
David W. Blight
4.17 avg rating — 12,342 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by:
Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.61 avg rating — 23,216 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by:
Nat Turner
3.66 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
by:
Eugene D. Genovese
4.03 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
by:
Stephanie M.H. Camp
4.25 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback)
by:
Robert William Fogel
4.10 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
by:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.33 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
by:
Deirdre O'Connell
3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
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William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by:
William Lloyd Garrison
3.71 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
by:
Craig Steven Wilder
3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
by:
Jonathan M. Bryant
3.52 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
by:
Mark Auslander
3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by:
Edward E. Baptist
4.45 avg rating — 5,508 ratings
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Slave Narratives
by:
William L. Andrews
4.49 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
by:
Erskine Clarke
4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation
by:
James G. Basker
3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
by:
Roger D. Abrahams
3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
by:
James Walvin
4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by:
Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,102 ratings
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
by:
Gregory E. O'Malley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
by:
David Waldstreicher
3.69 avg rating — 237 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by:
Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,102 ratings
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Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
by:
William Dusinberre
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings