Books about American slavery

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation 4.12 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Cloudsplitter
Cloudsplitter 3.93 avg rating — 5,097 ratings
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Soul Catcher
Soul Catcher 3.84 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
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The Longest Memory
The Longest Memory 3.76 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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My Name is Resolute
My Name is Resolute 4.22 avg rating — 7,647 ratings
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Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad
Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad 4.07 avg rating — 3,870 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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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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A Million Nightingales
A Million Nightingales 3.84 avg rating — 617 ratings
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.30 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice 3.45 avg rating — 1,724 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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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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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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Family
Family 4.43 avg rating — 2,717 ratings
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Mandingo Master
Mandingo Master 4.20 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,215 ratings
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Yellow Wife
Yellow Wife 4.43 avg rating — 78,867 ratings
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Nightjohn
Nightjohn 3.86 avg rating — 5,514 ratings
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Elijah of Buxton
Elijah of Buxton 3.96 avg rating — 14,176 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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Stigmata
Stigmata 3.82 avg rating — 295 ratings
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American Gods
American Gods 4.10 avg rating — 978,796 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner 3.96 avg rating — 15,966 ratings
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Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain 3.91 avg rating — 883 ratings
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A Sunday in June
A Sunday in June 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Pink and Say
Pink and Say 4.49 avg rating — 11,657 ratings
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The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today 3.90 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Ashes (Seeds of America, #3)
Ashes (Seeds of America, #3) 4.34 avg rating — 7,190 ratings
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The Last Runaway
The Last Runaway 3.85 avg rating — 38,622 ratings
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Bring the Jubilee
Bring the Jubilee 3.71 avg rating — 2,819 ratings
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The Wedding Gift
The Wedding Gift 3.94 avg rating — 8,958 ratings
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Women's Slave Narratives
Women's Slave Narratives 3.84 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles 4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Underground Airlines
Underground Airlines 3.82 avg rating — 25,804 ratings
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Into the Free (Into the Free, #1)
Into the Free (Into the Free, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
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All Souls' Rising
All Souls' Rising 3.99 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade 4.08 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,283 ratings
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American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt 3.78 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America
The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America 3.72 avg rating — 124 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
The Slave Ship: A Human History 4.12 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
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New Studies in the History of American Slavery
New Studies in the History of American Slavery 3.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 4.21 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Price of a Child
The Price of a Child 3.66 avg rating — 530 ratings
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American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'
Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad' 3.50 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Sapphira and the Slave Girl 3.73 avg rating — 1,778 ratings
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The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives
The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives 4.06 avg rating — 78 ratings
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights 4.35 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of My Home
The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of My Home 4.06 avg rating — 101 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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Celia, A Slave
Celia, A Slave 3.53 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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An Extended Journey
An Extended Journey 3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War 4.01 avg rating — 6,381 ratings
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Emancipation Proclamation, Forever Free
Emancipation Proclamation, Forever Free it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Treason of Mary Louvestre
The Treason of Mary Louvestre
by: My Haley
3.90 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America
Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin
Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin 4.08 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection Between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection Between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln 4.19 avg rating — 2,421 ratings
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My Name Is Not Angelica
My Name Is Not Angelica 3.65 avg rating — 914 ratings
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The Dread Owba Coo-Coo
The Dread Owba Coo-Coo 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Hidden Hills Saga: Book I: Ice Whispers
The Hidden Hills Saga: Book I: Ice Whispers
by: K. Willow
4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Yoke of Wind
Yoke of Wind 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America
Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America 3.90 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Henceforth the Bad Angel
Henceforth the Bad Angel 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Truth About Awiti
The Truth About Awiti 4.34 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Pull Of Freedom
The Pull Of Freedom 4.37 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Pindorama
Pindorama it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Demand the Impossible: Essays in History as Activism
Demand the Impossible: Essays in History as Activism 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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FOREVER MEN: Why the Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Can Still Save Blacks In America
FOREVER MEN: Why the Dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Can Still Save Blacks In America 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Drapetomania: Or, The Narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, lovers
Drapetomania: Or, The Narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, lovers 4.42 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Billy Gogan, American
Billy Gogan, American 4.44 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Caribbean
The Caribbean 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World
David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World 4.12 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Seeds of Slavery
Seeds of Slavery 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Who's the Master: A Black Slavery Fiction Story
Who's the Master: A Black Slavery Fiction Story 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson
A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson 3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home 4.04 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South
Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating — 21,638 ratings
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Indigo (Indigo, #1)
Indigo (Indigo, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Turn Back Time: The Escape
Turn Back Time: The Escape
by: Mavin Fox
4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Yellow Wife
Yellow Wife 4.43 avg rating — 78,867 ratings
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An Account of a Voyage up the River de la Plata, and Thence over Land to Peru: With Observations on the Inhabitants, as Well as Indians and Spaniards, the Cities, Commerce, Fertility, and Riches of That Part of America
An Account of a Voyage up the River de la Plata, and Thence over Land to Peru: With Observations on the Inhabitants, as Well as Indians and Spaniards, the Cities, Commerce, Fertility, and Riches of That Part of America 2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The General's Cook
The General's Cook 3.93 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by: J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Memories of the Little Elephant
Memories of the Little Elephant 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lost Seeds: The Beginning (Lost Seeds, #1)
Lost Seeds: The Beginning (Lost Seeds, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Horse
Horse 4.25 avg rating — 189,226 ratings
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The Road to Meilyn (The Road to Meilyn, #1)
The Road to Meilyn (The Road to Meilyn, #1) 4.67 avg rating — 3 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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The Fury of Angels (Book One of The Damned Reflections Trilogy)
The Fury of Angels (Book One of The Damned Reflections Trilogy) 4.83 avg rating — 24 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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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp 3.69 avg rating — 202 ratings
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From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad 3.52 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives 4.22 avg rating — 115 ratings
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