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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson ,

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Heart of Darkness
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Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad ,

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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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How the Word Is Passed

By Clint Smith ,

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Hidden Figures

By Margot Lee Shetterly ,

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By Saidiya V. Hartman ,

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America's Black Capital
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America's Black Capital

By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar ,

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West with the Night: A Memoir
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West with the Night

By Beryl Markham ,

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Becoming
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Becoming

By Michelle Obama ,

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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Wretched of the Earth

By Frantz Fanon , Richard Philcox (translator) ,

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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Frederick Douglass

By David W. Blight ,

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Parting the Waters
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Parting the Waters

By Taylor Branch ,

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By W.E.B. Du Bois ,

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The 1619 Project

By Nikole Hannah-Jones ,

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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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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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All That She Carried

By Tiya Miles ,

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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The Hemingses of Monticello

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone

By Ishmael Beah ,

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King: A Life
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King

By Jonathan Eig ,

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

By Barbara Ransby ,

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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Rising Tide

By John M. Barry ,

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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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The Cooking Gene

By Michael W. Twitty ,

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs ,

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Medical Apartheid

By Harriet A. Washington ,

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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Vanguard

By Martha S. Jones ,

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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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The Black Angels

By Maria Smilios ,

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Slavery by Another Name

By Douglas A. Blackmon ,

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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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Crusade for Justice

By Ida B. Wells ,

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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The Fiery Trial

By Eric Foner ,

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The Half Has Never Been Told

By Edward E. Baptist ,

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The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
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The Souls of Black Folk

By W. E. B. Du Bois ,

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
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Race and Reunion

By David W. Blight ,

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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Never Caught

By Erica Strong Dunbar ,

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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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At the Dark End of the Street

By Danielle L. McGuire ,

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

By Olaudah Equiano ,

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
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Can't Stop Won't Stop

By Jeff Chang ,

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French ,

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The Yellow House: A Memoir
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The Yellow House

By Sarah M Broom ,

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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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Confederate Reckoning

By Stephanie McCurry ,

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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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Saltwater Slavery

By Stephanie E. Smallwood ,

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Stamped from the Beginning

By Ibram X. Kendi ,

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Barracoon

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

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Capitalism and Slavery
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Capitalism and Slavery

By Eric Williams ,

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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
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Baseball's Great Experiment

By Jules Tygiel ,

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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
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To 'Joy My Freedom

By Tera W. Hunter ,

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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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Walking with the Wind

By John Lewis , Michael D'Orso ,

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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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The Color of Money

By Mehrsa Baradaran ,

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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 Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
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The Black Butterfly

By Lawrence T. Brown ,

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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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Medical Bondage

By Deirdre Cooper Owens ,

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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The Slave Ship

By Marcus Rediker ,

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The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
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The Women's Fight

By Thavolia Glymph ,

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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 Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

By C. Vann Woodward ,

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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
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Embattled Freedom

By Amy Murrell Taylor ,

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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
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Bloods

By Wallace Terry ,

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Until Justice Be Done

By Kate Masur ,

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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Sword and the Shield

By Peniel E. Joseph , Peniel E. Joseph ,

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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

By James D. Anderson ,

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James Baldwin: Collected Essays
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James Baldwin

By Toni Morrison , Toni Morrison , James Baldwin

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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Harriet Tubman

By Catherine Clinton ,

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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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The War Before the War

By Andrew Delbanco ,

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Malcolm X

By Manning Marable ,

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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
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I Came as a Shadow

By John Thompson , Jesse Washington ,

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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret

By Mary V. Thompson ,

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His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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His Truth Is Marching on

By John Meacham ,

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Worse Than Slavery
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Worse Than Slavery

By David M. Oshinsky ,

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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
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No Common Ground

By Karen L. Cox ,

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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
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Radical Vision

By Soyica Diggs Colbert ,

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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
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Complicity

By Anne Farrow , Joel Lang , Jennifer Frank

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Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
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Race Rebels

By Robin D. G. Kelley ,

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Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
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Knocking on Labor's Door

By Lane Windham ,

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
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Black Gotham

By Carla L. Peterson ,

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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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Making Whiteness

By Grace Elizabeth Hale ,

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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
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The Promised Land

By Nicholas Lemann ,

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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
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My Song

By Harry Belafonte , Michael Shnayerson ,

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12 Million Black Voices
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12 Million Black Voices

By Richard Wright ,

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Franchise

By Marcia Chatelain ,

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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
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Liner Notes for the Revolution

By Daphne A. Brooks ,

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

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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All God's Dangers

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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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From Here to Equality

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Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
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Farming While Black

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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
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The Reaper's Garden

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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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Household Workers Unite

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Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
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Family Properties

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
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The Condemnation of Blackness

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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
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The Broken Heart of America

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
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Stamped

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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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Tales from the Haunted South

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Why We Can't Wait
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Why We Can't Wait

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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
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Obama

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Wake

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James Baldwin: A Biography
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James Baldwin

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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
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Illusions of Emancipation

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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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They Left Great Marks on Me

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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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Lose Your Mother

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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
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Runaway Slaves

By John Hope Franklin , Loren Schweninger ,

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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
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