Books about American slavery

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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It
Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It 4.25 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past
Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past 4.17 avg rating — 6 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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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 4.31 avg rating — 396 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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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 379 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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Neither More Nor Less Than Men: Slavery in Georgia: A Documentary History
Neither More Nor Less Than Men: Slavery in Georgia: A Documentary History 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved
Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave 3.83 avg rating — 4,476 ratings
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The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist 3.83 avg rating — 42 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 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 Slavery Reader
The Slavery Reader 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship (African American Life Series)
The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship (African American Life Series) 4.40 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal 3.80 avg rating — 650 ratings
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World 3.91 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Stand the Storm
Stand the Storm 3.40 avg rating — 477 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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The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview 4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings
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What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War 4.07 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave
Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Wake of the Wind
The Wake of the Wind 4.47 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
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Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia
Remember Me: Slave Life in Coastal Georgia 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South 4.08 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves 3.98 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Angels Make Their Hope Here
Angels Make Their Hope Here 3.40 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love
Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner 3.69 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Cold Running Creek
Cold Running Creek 3.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race
Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race 3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 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 3.98 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Promise Bridge
Promise Bridge 4.04 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts 3.99 avg rating — 91 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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Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom 4.14 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 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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Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet 4.01 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy 4.22 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
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The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights 4.05 avg rating — 75 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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Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom 4.37 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics 3.95 avg rating — 406 ratings
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans 3.73 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 3.94 avg rating — 32 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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Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865: 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: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 3.83 avg rating — 23 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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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery 3.87 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It 3.73 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South 3.98 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Questioning Slavery
Questioning Slavery 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking
The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking 3.81 avg rating — 3,610 ratings
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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 4.06 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative 3.81 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links 4.20 avg rating — 40 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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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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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas 4.43 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port
Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White 4.25 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies
Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery and Religion in the Antebellum South
When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery and Religion in the Antebellum South 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World 3.98 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie
Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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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More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas
More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Slavery in the Land of the Free: A Student's Guide to Modern Day Slavery
Slavery in the Land of the Free: A Student's Guide to Modern Day Slavery 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South 4.14 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah 4.07 avg rating — 15 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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Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan 4.33 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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American Slavery: 1619-1877
American Slavery: 1619-1877 3.94 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Shadow of a Quarter Moon
Shadow of a Quarter Moon 3.69 avg rating — 150 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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Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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I Made This Jar... The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave
I Made This Jar... The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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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Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy 3.67 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South 4.09 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Against the Odds
Against the Odds 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America 4.06 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives 4.08 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
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The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave 3.48 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Brown Thrasher Books)
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.11 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
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Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory
Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory 4.07 avg rating — 14 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 and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate
Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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