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The Known World
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The Known World

By Edward P. Jones ,

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

By Stephanie E. Smallwood ,

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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The Slave Ship

By Marcus Rediker ,

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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Harriet Tubman

By Catherine Clinton ,

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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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Chains
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Chains

By Laurie Halse Anderson ,

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Someone Knows My Name
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Someone Knows My Name

By Lawrence Hill ,

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By Darkness Hid
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By Darkness Hid

By Jill Williamson ,

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The Spartacus War
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The Spartacus War

By Barry Strauss ,

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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers

By Joseph M Thomas , Jean Fagan Yellin , Scott Korb

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Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807
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Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807

By Emma Christopher ,

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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System
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Criminal Injustice

By Glenn McNair ,

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Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Harriet Jacobs

By Jean Fagan Yellin ,

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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
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Mrs. Dred Scott

By Lea Vandervelde ,

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Zong!
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Zong!

By M. Nourbese Philip ,

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Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
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Nothing But Freedom

By Eric Foner ,

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A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
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A Colony of Citizens

By Laurent Dubois ,

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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
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Working Cures

By Sharla M. Fett ,

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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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Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
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Confederate Emancipation

By Bruce Levine ,

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Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
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Sweet Water and Bitter

By Siân Rees ,

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The Naming
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The Naming

By Alison Croggon ,

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Up From Slavery
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Up From Slavery

By Booker T. Washington ,

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Property
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Property

By Valerie Martin ,

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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World
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David Walker's Appeal

By David Walker ,

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama

By Sylviane A. Diouf ,

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The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
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The South vs. The South

By William W. Freehling ,

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The Book of Night Women
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The Book of Night Women

By Marlon James ,

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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
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Closer to Freedom

By Stephanie M. H. Camp ,

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The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
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The Trader, The Owner, The Slave

By James Walvin ,

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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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Nat Turner
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Nat Turner

By Kyle Baker ,

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