Books about American slavery

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,543 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,267 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,905 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,134 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,351 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 — 56,856 ratings
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The Kitchen House
The Kitchen House 4.23 avg rating — 295,454 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,857 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,986 ratings
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Wench
Wench 3.73 avg rating — 18,201 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes 4.47 avg rating — 90,239 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,125 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,303 ratings
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The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating — 44,316 ratings
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Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,826 ratings
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The Book of Night Women
The Book of Night Women 4.37 avg rating — 14,807 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,978 ratings
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Cane River
Cane River 4.08 avg rating — 50,065 ratings
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A Mercy
A Mercy 3.76 avg rating — 31,911 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,719 ratings
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The Invention of Wings
The Invention of Wings 4.26 avg rating — 328,040 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 4.18 avg rating — 14,105 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 — 14,418 ratings
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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,598 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,267 ratings
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Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
Chains (Seeds of America, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 58,193 ratings
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Queen
Queen 4.24 avg rating — 3,194 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,155 ratings
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Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings 3.98 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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Middle Passage
Middle Passage 3.85 avg rating — 5,410 ratings
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Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1) 4.12 avg rating — 7,406 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner 3.96 avg rating — 15,965 ratings
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Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 83,771 ratings
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Amistad
Amistad 3.85 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The House Girl
The House Girl 3.77 avg rating — 62,908 ratings
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 3.94 avg rating — 5,281 ratings
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 4.02 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
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North and South (North and South, #1)
North and South (North and South, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 62,168 ratings
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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 4.03 avg rating — 5,281 ratings
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The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 15,982 ratings
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The Feast of All Saints
The Feast of All Saints
by: Anne Rice
3.88 avg rating — 18,587 ratings
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection 4.38 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Black Thunder
Black Thunder 3.71 avg rating — 243 ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom 4.38 avg rating — 12,158 ratings
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I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott
I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott 3.94 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,209 ratings
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A Respectable Trade
A Respectable Trade 3.81 avg rating — 9,591 ratings
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Red River
Red River 3.89 avg rating — 3,438 ratings
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Property
Property 3.70 avg rating — 5,851 ratings
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Some Sing, Some Cry
Some Sing, Some Cry 3.84 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South 4.18 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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Forge (Seeds of America, #2)
Forge (Seeds of America, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 17,290 ratings
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Sapphire's Grave
Sapphire's Grave 3.78 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 3.74 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
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Slaves in the Family
Slaves in the Family 4.04 avg rating — 3,020 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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Dessa Rose
Dessa Rose 3.80 avg rating — 990 ratings
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Freeman
Freeman 4.34 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
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To Be a Slave
To Be a Slave 3.93 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins 3.93 avg rating — 4,963 ratings
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The Long Song
The Long Song 3.79 avg rating — 11,126 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
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The Healing
The Healing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,787 ratings
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
The Bondwoman's Narrative 3.91 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class 4.48 avg rating — 376 ratings
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All Different Kinds of Free
All Different Kinds of Free 4.20 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 4.18 avg rating — 6,497 ratings
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The Wind Done Gone
The Wind Done Gone 3.16 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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Song Yet Sung
Song Yet Sung 4.05 avg rating — 5,999 ratings
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Sweetsmoke
Sweetsmoke 3.72 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Copper Sun
Copper Sun 4.35 avg rating — 16,906 ratings
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A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Love and War (North and South, #2)
Love and War (North and South, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 18,805 ratings
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The Butler: A Witness to History
The Butler: A Witness to History 3.26 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
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The President's Daughter
The President's Daughter 3.75 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title) 4.15 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
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L'Immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen
L'Immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen 3.71 avg rating — 262 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter 3.63 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
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The Slave Dancer
The Slave Dancer
by: Paula Fox
3.70 avg rating — 10,521 ratings
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Mandingo
Mandingo 3.85 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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For God, Country and the Confederacy: Completing the Circle of Acceptance
For God, Country and the Confederacy: Completing the Circle of Acceptance liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 3,540 ratings
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The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins
The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins 3.59 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker 3.54 avg rating — 32,346 ratings
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In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs, #1)
In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 3,106 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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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 — 4,107 ratings
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 3.60 avg rating — 4,880 ratings
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves 4.02 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons 3.88 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
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The Secret Life of Mary Bowser
The Secret Life of Mary Bowser 3.97 avg rating — 7,658 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 — 38,091 ratings
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The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2)
The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
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Heaven and Hell (North and South, #3)
Heaven and Hell (North and South, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 12,044 ratings
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Murder at Monticello (Mrs. Murphy #3)
Murder at Monticello (Mrs. Murphy #3) 3.88 avg rating — 5,184 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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Echo of Lions
Echo of Lions 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Oaklayne: A Civil War Saga (The Oaklayne Series)
Oaklayne: A Civil War Saga (The Oaklayne Series) 4.42 avg rating — 565 ratings
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Abraham's Well
Abraham's Well 3.97 avg rating — 331 ratings
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