June Book Display - Juneteenth / Freedom Day

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,182 ratings
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Island Queen
Island Queen 3.92 avg rating — 4,382 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,378 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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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War 4.17 avg rating — 299 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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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 4.12 avg rating — 132,002 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Deep
The Deep 3.77 avg rating — 38,707 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,987 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 3.93 avg rating — 7,986 ratings
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The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1)
The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 3,870 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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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,050 ratings
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Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites
Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites 4.16 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook 4.21 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,312 ratings
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On Juneteenth
On Juneteenth 4.18 avg rating — 10,335 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,142 ratings
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts 4.27 avg rating — 5,748 ratings
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Juneteenth
Juneteenth 3.60 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom 3.95 avg rating — 382 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,363 ratings
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Sweet Home Café Cookbook: A Celebration of African American Cooking
Sweet Home Café Cookbook: A Celebration of African American Cooking
by: NMAAHC
4.10 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life
Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Yonder
Yonder 4.19 avg rating — 2,241 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
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Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition 4.08 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations 4.03 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Fix Me a Plate: Traditional and New School Soul Food Recipes from Scotty Scott of Cook Drank Eat
Fix Me a Plate: Traditional and New School Soul Food Recipes from Scotty Scott of Cook Drank Eat 3.97 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North 3.84 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook]
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] 4.46 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen
Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen 4.25 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey
The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail 3.58 avg rating — 866 ratings
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The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment 4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,287 ratings
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My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef
My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef 3.96 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives 4.18 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin 4.42 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires
Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires 3.76 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,137 ratings
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The Life of Frederick Douglas
The Life of Frederick Douglas 4.35 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy 4.13 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Gay People of Color: Facing Prejudices, Forging Identities
Gay People of Color: Facing Prejudices, Forging Identities 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 4.33 avg rating — 30,142 ratings
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#Blacklivesmatter: Protesting Racism: Protesting Racism (#movements)
#Blacklivesmatter: Protesting Racism: Protesting Racism (#movements) 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America 4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America 4.03 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation
Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation 4.35 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South
Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South 3.53 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey
The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Day the Klan Came to Town
The Day the Klan Came to Town 3.52 avg rating — 311 ratings
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow 4.32 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America 3.83 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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The Invisible Empire: Madge Oberholtzer And The Unmasking Of The Ku Klux Klan
The Invisible Empire: Madge Oberholtzer And The Unmasking Of The Ku Klux Klan 3.42 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror 3.61 avg rating — 580 ratings
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman 4.17 avg rating — 3,246 ratings
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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom 4.08 avg rating — 815 ratings
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings
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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations 4.07 avg rating — 271 ratings
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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century 4.39 avg rating — 593 ratings
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The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1) 4.49 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America 4.13 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning 4.33 avg rating — 2,845 ratings
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery 4.17 avg rating — 59 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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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America 4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad 3.62 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865
Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey
Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Stories of Slavery in New Jersey
Stories of Slavery in New Jersey 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865
The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865 4.17 avg rating — 6 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 Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America 4.30 avg rating — 283 ratings
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America 3.91 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Amistad: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner
Amistad: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Disgruntled
Disgruntled 3.66 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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Queen of Exiles
Queen of Exiles 3.77 avg rating — 460 ratings