Juneteenth Adult Books
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by:
Deborah Willis
4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings 
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
by:
Eric Foner
4.17 avg rating — 779 ratings 8. 
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by:
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.59 avg rating — 9,717 ratings 8. 
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
by:
Kris Manjapra
4.29 avg rating — 383 ratings 10. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,053 ratings
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American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation
by:
James G. Basker
3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings 12. 
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by:
Edward Ball
3.76 avg rating — 986 ratings 12. 
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation 4.49 avg rating — 394 ratings
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In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America
by:
Andrew F. Lang
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 16. 
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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
by:
Laura Coates
4.20 avg rating — 1,742 ratings 19. 
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South 4.08 avg rating — 78 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating — 30,600 ratings 21. 
The Emancipation of Robert Sadler: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-Century Plantation Slave
by:
Robert Sadler
4.32 avg rating — 432 ratings 
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Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
by:
David W. Blight
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
by:
Thulani Davis
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
by:
Carole Emberton
3.95 avg rating — 84 ratings 29. 
The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom
by:
James A. Delle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 30. 
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
by:
Cate Lineberry
4.08 avg rating — 1,099 ratings 31. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
by:
Chandra Manning
4.14 avg rating — 100 ratings 
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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
by:
Jim Downs
3.97 avg rating — 201 ratings 
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by:
Dick Gregory
4.05 avg rating — 1,782 ratings 37. 
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More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 4.06 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal―and How to Set Them Right
by:
Adam Harris
3.94 avg rating — 390 ratings 
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today
by:
Melanie Light
4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings 48. 
Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America 4.21 avg rating — 145 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by:
Tiya Miles
3.93 avg rating — 7,986 ratings 53. 
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by:
Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,105 ratings 54. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,297 ratings 55. 
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
by:
Audre Lorde
4.56 avg rating — 8,003 ratings