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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Frederick Douglass

By David W. Blight ,

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An Ember in the Ashes
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An Ember in the Ashes

By Sabaa Tahir ,

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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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Empire of Cotton

By Sven Beckert ,

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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 Kitchen House
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The Kitchen House

By Kathleen Grissom ,

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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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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 Indigo Girl
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The Indigo Girl

By Natasha Boyd ,

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Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima
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Exquisite Slaves

By Tamara J. Walker ,

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

By Joseph P. Reidy ,

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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
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Tropical Freedom

By Ikuko Asaka ,

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Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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Creolization and Contraband

By Linda M. Rupert ,

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Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
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Finding Charity's Folk

By Jessica Millward ,

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Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
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Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

By Erin Kathleen Rowe ,

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Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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Behind the Scenes

By Elizabeth Keckley ,

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

By Calvin Schermerhorn ,

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Phoenix Unbound
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Phoenix Unbound

By Grace Draven ,

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Before She Was Harriet
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Before She Was Harriet

By Lesa Cline-Ransome , James E. Ransome (illustrator) ,

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The Boy and His Ribbon
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The Boy and His Ribbon

By Pepper Winters ,

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Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Postemancipation Virginia
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Intimate Reconstructions

By Catherine A. Jones ,

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Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825
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Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution

By Marcela Echeverri ,

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The Tide Between Us
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The Tide Between Us

By Olive Collins ,

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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Sick from Freedom

By Jim Downs ,

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Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues: Then and Now
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Slave Stealers

By Timothy Ballard ,

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Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
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Stolen Childhood

By Wilma King ,

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The Midwife of Venice
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The Midwife of Venice

By Roberta Rich ,

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Forge
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Forge

By Laurie Halse Anderson ,

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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
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Doctoring Freedom

By Gretchen Long ,

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Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
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Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

By James H. Sweet ,

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The Queen's Handmaid
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The Queen's Handmaid

By Tracy L Higley ,

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Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
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Dark Work

By Christy Clark-Pujara ,

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Slave Old Man
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Slave Old Man

By Patrick Chamoiseau , Linda Coverdale (translator) ,

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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America

By Damian Alan Pargas (editor) ,

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Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
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Tyrannicide

By Emily Blanck , Paul Finkelman (editor) , Timothy S. Huebner (editor)

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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
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Sweet Taste of Liberty

By W. Caleb McDaniel ,

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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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Trouble The Water
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Trouble The Water

By Rebecca Dwight Bruff ,

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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They Were Her Property

By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ,

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