Slavery in YA & Middle Grade Historical Fiction

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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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Copper Sun
Copper Sun 4.35 avg rating — 16,906 ratings
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Jefferson's Sons
Jefferson's Sons 4.11 avg rating — 8,911 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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Meet Addy: An American Girl (American Girls: Addy, #1)
Meet Addy: An American Girl (American Girls: Addy, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 10,483 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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Sugar
Sugar 4.07 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
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Nightjohn
Nightjohn 3.86 avg rating — 5,514 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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Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave 3.83 avg rating — 1,041 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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Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl 3.88 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs 3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Stealing Freedom
Stealing Freedom 4.08 avg rating — 737 ratings
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A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson
A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson 3.98 avg rating — 687 ratings
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Send One Angel Down
Send One Angel Down 4.22 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Good Fortune
Good Fortune 3.92 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Willow
Willow 3.67 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Steal Away Home
Steal Away Home
by: Lois Ruby
3.78 avg rating — 810 ratings
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If I Just Had Two Wings
If I Just Had Two Wings 4.19 avg rating — 367 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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Wolf by the Ears
Wolf by the Ears 3.83 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
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Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South 3.82 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad
North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad 3.91 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Steal Away
Steal Away 3.61 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Numbering All the Bones
Numbering All the Bones 3.76 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
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An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley 3.76 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Come Juneteenth
Come Juneteenth 3.54 avg rating — 793 ratings
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True North
True North 3.86 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Letter Writer
The Letter Writer 3.79 avg rating — 732 ratings
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The Color of Fire
The Color of Fire 3.13 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Ever-After Bird
The Ever-After Bird 3.90 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Soon Be Free
Soon Be Free
by: Lois Ruby
3.90 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Tituba of Salem Village
Tituba of Salem Village
by: Ann Petry
3.67 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Melitte
Melitte 3.98 avg rating — 41 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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Currents
Currents 3.94 avg rating — 122 ratings
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So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix
So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix 3.90 avg rating — 3,308 ratings
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Elijah of Buxton
Elijah of Buxton 3.96 avg rating — 14,175 ratings
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47
47 3.74 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel
Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel 3.63 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Unbound: A Novel in Verse
Unbound: A Novel in Verse 4.17 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
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Freewater
Freewater 4.16 avg rating — 5,202 ratings
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Dark of the Moon
Dark of the Moon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek
Crossing Ebenezer Creek 3.87 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Jip: His Story
Jip: His Story 3.73 avg rating — 1,386 ratings
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My Name Is Sally Little Song
My Name Is Sally Little Song 3.99 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs
Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs 3.66 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Freedom Maze
The Freedom Maze 3.86 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Dear Mr. President Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl
Dear Mr. President Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl 3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Freedom's Wings (My America: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary, #1)
Freedom's Wings (My America: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Trouble Don't Last
Trouble Don't Last 3.99 avg rating — 1,184 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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Calico Girl
Calico Girl 3.39 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary
Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary 3.79 avg rating — 246 ratings
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A Girl Called Boy
A Girl Called Boy 3.53 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Sing Down the Moon
Sing Down the Moon 3.76 avg rating — 8,740 ratings
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Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad 3.84 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Black Angels
Black Angels 3.93 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Across the Lines
Across the Lines 3.46 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Miles' Song
Miles' Song 3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Fires of Jubilee
Fires of Jubilee 3.77 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Sound the Jubilee
Sound the Jubilee 3.88 avg rating — 72 ratings
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A Wish After Midnight
A Wish After Midnight 3.73 avg rating — 659 ratings
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The Slave Ship
The Slave Ship 3.83 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Stealing South: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Stealing South: A Story of the Underground Railroad 3.61 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Journey of Little Charlie
The Journey of Little Charlie 4.05 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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Sarny: A life Remembered
Sarny: A life Remembered 3.98 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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William Henry is a Fine Name (Civil War Series #1)
William Henry is a Fine Name (Civil War Series #1) 4.37 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Bright Freedom's Song: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Bright Freedom's Song: A Story of the Underground Railroad 3.70 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Belle
Belle 4.26 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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The Mirk and Midnight Hour
The Mirk and Midnight Hour 3.51 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
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Seeds of Slavery
Seeds of Slavery 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Kursk (James Mitchel #1)
Kursk (James Mitchel #1) 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Away to Sea
Away to Sea 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Stone River Crossing
Stone River Crossing 3.54 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Finding Freedom: An Addy Classic Volume 1
Finding Freedom: An Addy Classic Volume 1 4.33 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The First of Midnight
The First of Midnight 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Indigo Magic
Indigo Magic 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Freedom Crossing
Freedom Crossing 4.04 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Freedom Songs: A Tale of the Underground Railroad (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels)
Freedom Songs: A Tale of the Underground Railroad (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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A Sitting in St. James
A Sitting in St. James 4.05 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined 4.53 avg rating — 860 ratings
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David's Journey on the Underground Railroad (Cover-To-Cover Novels: David's Adventures)
David's Journey on the Underground Railroad (Cover-To-Cover Novels: David's Adventures) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Other Side of Free
The Other Side of Free 3.52 avg rating — 46 ratings
86.
The Cursed Ground (Zora and Me #2)
The Cursed Ground (Zora and Me #2) 4.37 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Freedom's Price
Freedom's Price 3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings
88.
Fight for Freedom
Fight for Freedom
by: Stan Mack
3.30 avg rating — 47 ratings
89.
The Storm Before Atlanta
The Storm Before Atlanta 3.56 avg rating — 147 ratings
89.
The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 7,126 ratings
91.
Martha and the Slave Catchers
Martha and the Slave Catchers 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
91.
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope 4.24 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Freedom Stone
Freedom Stone 3.93 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story
Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story 3.37 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Home Is with Our Family
Home Is with Our Family 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Tancy
Tancy 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Charlotte Spies for Justice: A Civil War Survival Story
Charlotte Spies for Justice: A Civil War Survival Story 3.95 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Sophia Scrooby Preserved
Sophia Scrooby Preserved 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
99.
River Runs Deep
River Runs Deep 3.83 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Which Way Freedom?
Which Way Freedom? 3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings
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