Books about American slavery

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Underground to Canada
Underground to Canada 3.95 avg rating — 3,422 ratings
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry 4.47 avg rating — 413 ratings
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The Songs of Black Folks: The Joy, The Pain and The Determination of Black People
The Songs of Black Folks: The Joy, The Pain and The Determination of Black People really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius
Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback)
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback) 4.10 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Sweetness of Water
The Sweetness of Water 4.14 avg rating — 58,223 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
Liberalism: A Counter-History 4.39 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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The Road Back Home (The Road to Meilyn, #2)
The Road Back Home (The Road to Meilyn, #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,082 ratings
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Mandingo: The Golden Boy
Mandingo: The Golden Boy
by: Sidi
4.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Queen's Slave Trader
Queen's Slave Trader 3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad
The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad 4.04 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Grace
Grace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,083 ratings
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The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads 3.84 avg rating — 2,491 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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Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Iola Leroy
Iola Leroy 3.54 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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Mama Flora's Family
Mama Flora's Family 4.20 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Sarny: A life Remembered
Sarny: A life Remembered 3.98 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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The River Where Blood Is Born
The River Where Blood Is Born 4.27 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives 4.26 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Cletus: An Historical Novel about Slavery, Freedom, Revenge and Redemption in Civil War Indian Territory
Cletus: An Historical Novel about Slavery, Freedom, Revenge and Redemption in Civil War Indian Territory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind 3.42 avg rating — 3,118 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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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series)
Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia (Georgia History and Culture Series) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Isle of Canes
Isle of Canes 4.08 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community
Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community 4.07 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.78 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1)
Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 37,637 ratings
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop 3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
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On To Richmond (Bregdan Chronicles, #2)
On To Richmond (Bregdan Chronicles, #2) 4.47 avg rating — 10,410 ratings
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The slave trade: The story of transatlantic slavery
The slave trade: The story of transatlantic slavery 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Not with Silver
Not with Silver 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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My Jim
My Jim 3.73 avg rating — 559 ratings
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The End of the Line
The End of the Line
by: Jim Power
4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution
Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution 3.74 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery 4.24 avg rating — 690 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 — 38,099 ratings
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Charleston
Charleston 3.95 avg rating — 4,000 ratings
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In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period 4.29 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War 3.55 avg rating — 571 ratings
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God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves
God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens"
The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens" 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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All We Were Promised
All We Were Promised 3.81 avg rating — 8,580 ratings
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave 4.13 avg rating — 5,535 ratings
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Mustard Seed (Freedman/Johnson, #2)
Mustard Seed (Freedman/Johnson, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 26,809 ratings
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Crossing The River
Crossing The River 3.72 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Jump Ship to Freedom (Arabus Family Saga) (Arabus Family Saga Series)
Jump Ship to Freedom (Arabus Family Saga) (Arabus Family Saga Series) 3.77 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
Thousand Pieces of Gold 3.89 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
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The Guns of the South
The Guns of the South 3.96 avg rating — 9,491 ratings
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration 4.11 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power 3.75 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 4.06 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Higher Ground
Higher Ground 3.96 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Runaway!
Runaway! 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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British Capitalism and British Slavery
British Capitalism and British Slavery 4.67 avg rating — 3 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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We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia
We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia 4.14 avg rating — 225 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 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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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,933 ratings
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A Different Kind of Christmas
A Different Kind of Christmas 3.72 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Amistad
Amistad 3.82 avg rating — 598 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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Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader
Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Long Dream
The Long Dream 4.17 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Addy: An American Girl (Boxed Set)
Addy: An American Girl (Boxed Set) 4.12 avg rating — 4,279 ratings
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Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song
Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song 4.14 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books)
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands (Brown Thrasher Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom 3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Walk Through Darkness
Walk Through Darkness 3.83 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Wash
Wash 3.65 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Voyager (Outlander, #3)
Voyager (Outlander, #3) 4.39 avg rating — 325,470 ratings
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Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series)
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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El reino de este mundo
El reino de este mundo 3.78 avg rating — 7,900 ratings
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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery 4.46 avg rating — 178 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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Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best
Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans 4.32 avg rating — 630 ratings
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The Songs of Stones River
The Songs of Stones River 3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present-25 African-Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumphs of Their Childhoods
Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present-25 African-Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumphs of Their Childhoods
by: Jay David
4.24 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of theUnited States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of theUnited States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War 4.33 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Harriet Tubman : Demon Slayer
Harriet Tubman : Demon Slayer 4.28 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison 4.11 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Slave Scheme: A Novel
The Slave Scheme: A Novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Capitalism & Slavery
Capitalism & Slavery 4.23 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South
Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later: Eric Eustace Williams – A Reassessment of the Man and His Work
Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later: Eric Eustace Williams – A Reassessment of the Man and His Work it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 4.16 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Show Way
Show Way 4.26 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism 4.46 avg rating — 706 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 — 5,507 ratings
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Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery
Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century 4.18 avg rating — 252 ratings
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