African Slave Trade

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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,139 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 — 56,861 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,041 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,383 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,034 ratings
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating — 14,419 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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The Slave Ship: A Human History
The Slave Ship: A Human History 4.12 avg rating — 2,152 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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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South 4.25 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Dead Reckoning: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure (Valkyrie, #2)
Dead Reckoning: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure (Valkyrie, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 123 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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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History 3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Ill Wind (Valkyrie, #1)
Ill Wind (Valkyrie, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,557 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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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,020 ratings
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Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas 4.22 avg rating — 67 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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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves 4.01 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations 3.87 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner 3.96 avg rating — 15,968 ratings
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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South 4.14 avg rating — 549 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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Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (African Studies, Series Number 100)
Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (African Studies, Series Number 100) 3.71 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books)
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas 3.73 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Black Society in Spanish Florida
Black Society in Spanish Florida 4.12 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas 3.52 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) 4.53 avg rating — 74 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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American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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Someone Knows My Name
Someone Knows My Name 4.47 avg rating — 90,248 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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Slavernij en de Memorie ~ Slaaf en Meester
Slavernij en de Memorie ~ Slaaf en Meester 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria
Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
Chains (Seeds of America, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 58,198 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Theologian Slave Trader
The Theologian Slave Trader 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: The powerful anti-slavery novel, with bonus material: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Uncle Tom's Cabin: The powerful anti-slavery novel, with bonus material: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup 4.14 avg rating — 87 ratings
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A Respectable Trade
A Respectable Trade 3.81 avg rating — 9,591 ratings
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The Coming: A Novel
The Coming: A Novel 4.41 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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A Mercy
A Mercy 3.76 avg rating — 31,916 ratings
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To Ravensrigg
To Ravensrigg 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution 3.88 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 4.20 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo 4.50 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Wij slaven van Suriname
Wij slaven van Suriname 4.30 avg rating — 2,740 ratings
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My Name is Resolute
My Name is Resolute 4.22 avg rating — 7,650 ratings
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A New Creature
A New Creature 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships: Property, Plunder and Loss
Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships: Property, Plunder and Loss 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Brave Music of a Distant Drum
Brave Music of a Distant Drum 3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 3.99 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Away to Sea
Away to Sea 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion 4.05 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Unconfessed
Unconfessed 3.45 avg rating — 195 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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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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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship 3.52 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy 3.49 avg rating — 160 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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Amistad
Amistad 3.85 avg rating — 357 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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From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.40 avg rating — 5 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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The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History 4.09 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South 3.76 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno 3.53 avg rating — 9,680 ratings
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The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World 3.75 avg rating — 61 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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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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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age 3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings
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History of Slavery: An Illustrated History of the Monstrous Evil
History of Slavery: An Illustrated History of the Monstrous Evil 4.17 avg rating — 18 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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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora 3.84 avg rating — 580 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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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives 4.33 avg rating — 186 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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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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Short History of Slavery
Short History of Slavery 3.74 avg rating — 211 ratings
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom 4.18 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South 3.93 avg rating — 82 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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Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves 4.19 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails 3.96 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 3.67 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion 3.80 avg rating — 659 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 4.02 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 4.42 avg rating — 7,739 ratings
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