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The Invention of Wings
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The Invention of Wings

By Sue Monk Kidd ,

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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Frederick Douglass

By David W. Blight ,

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Master Slave Husband Wife

By Ilyon Woo ,

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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By Jane Smiley ,

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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
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Sojourner Truth

By Nell Irvin Painter ,

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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
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Freedom National

By James Oakes ,

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass ,

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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
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The Grimkes

By Kerri K. Greenidge ,

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The Good Lord Bird
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The Good Lord Bird

By James McBride ,

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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Harriet Tubman

By Catherine Clinton ,

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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
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The Zealot and the Emancipator

By H.W. Brands ,

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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
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The Slave's Cause

By Manisha Sinha ,

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Someone Knows My Name
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Someone Knows My Name

By Lawrence Hill ,

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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

By Michael J. Douma ,

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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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Contested Bodies

By Sasha Turner ,

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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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Inhuman Bondage

By David Brion Davis ,

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"There Is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
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"There Is a North"

By John L. Brooke ,

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

By James Oakes ,

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John Brown
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John Brown

By W.E.B. Du Bois ,

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Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown
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Fire from the Midst of You

By Louis A. Decaro Jr. ,

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Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
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Patriotic Treason

By Evan Carton ,

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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
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The Agitators

By Dorothy Wickenden ,

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Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
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Slaves Waiting for Sale

By Maurie D. McInnis ,

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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass

By Benjamin Quarles ,

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Young Frederick Douglass
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Young Frederick Douglass

By Dickson J. Preston ,

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Our Nig
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Our Nig

By Harriet E. Wilson ,

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The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery
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The Price of Emancipation

By Nicholas Draper ,

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William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
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William Still and His Freedom Stories

By Don Tate ,

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Cloudsplitter
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Cloudsplitter

By Russell Banks ,

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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
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Bury the Chains

By Adam Hochschild ,

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Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment
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Dark Side of the Light

By Louis Sala-Molins ,

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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880
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Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880

By Luke E. Harlow ,

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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
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Abolition Geography

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore , Brenna Bandar (editor) , Alberto Toscano (editor)

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The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown
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The Birth of Black America

By Tim Hashaw ,

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Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
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Moral Capital

By Christopher Leslie Brown ,

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In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870
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In the Blood of Our Brothers

By Jesús Sanjurjo ,

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The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
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The Two Princes of Calabar

By Randy J. Sparks ,

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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
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Vigilance

By Andrew K. Diemer ,

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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
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David Ruggles

By Graham Russell Gao Hodges ,

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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
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The Radical and the Republican

By James Oakes ,

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William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity
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William Wilberforce

By Kevin Belmonte ,

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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: An African American Heritage Book
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

By Frederick Douglass ,

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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Moses

By Carol Boston Weatherford , Kadir Nelson (illustrator) ,

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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
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Force and Freedom

By Kellie Carter Jackson ,

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So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
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So Tall Within

By Gary D. Schmidt , Daniel Minter (illustrator) ,

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In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
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In the Cause of Humanity

By Fabian Klose ,

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All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery
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All on Fire

By Henry Mayer ,

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Freedom's Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution
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Freedom's Debtors

By Padraic X. Scanlan ,

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Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860
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Ballots for Freedom

By Richard H. Sewell ,

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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
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Salmon P. Chase

By Walter Stahr ,

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Black Patriots and Loyalists
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Black Patriots and Loyalists

By Alan Gilbert ,

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Rough Crossings
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Rough Crossings

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