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  • John C. Rodrigue The best recent books on emancipation during the U.S. Civil War Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery Book cover of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction Book cover of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation Book cover of Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
  • Manu Herbstein The best books for a deep dive into the Transatlantic slave trade Book cover of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Book cover of Elmina, 'The Little Europe': European Impact and Cultural Resilience Book cover of Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Book cover of Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 Book cover of To Be a Slave in Brazil: 1550-1888
  • Douglas R. Egerton The best books to have won the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Book cover of Mourning Lincoln Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of For Cause and Comrade: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
  • Lee Ann Timreck The best books on the activism of African American women from emancipation through Jim Crow Book cover of Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject Book cover of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Book cover of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America Book cover of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction Book cover of A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
  • Leo J. Garofalo The best books about Afro-Latin American and Afro-Andean history Book cover of Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire Book cover of Entangled Coercion: African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th–17th Century) Book cover of Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima Book cover of In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870 Book cover of The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru
  • Richard J. Carwardine The best books on the political and moral power that made Abraham Lincoln a great president Book cover of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Book cover of Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words Book cover of Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • Frank J. Cirillo The best books on the long and difficult fight against slavery in America Book cover of Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race Book cover of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Book cover of Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Book cover of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
  • Benjamin L. Carp The best books that get beyond the “bedtime story” of the American Revolution Book cover of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution Book cover of The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities Book cover of Chains Book cover of The Pox Party Book cover of Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
  • Andrew M. Wehrman The best books to understand health and politics in the early United States Book cover of The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England Book cover of The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia Book cover of Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom Book cover of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866 Book cover of Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
  • Debra Bruno The best books about slavery that will surprise you Book cover of Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery Book cover of Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom Book cover of In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831 Book cover of The Known World Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
  • Brooke Newman The best books on Britain and Atlantic slavery Book cover of Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Book cover of Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain Book cover of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Book cover of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Book cover of The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery
  • Nicholas Radburn The best books on how the Atlantic slave trade operated Book cover of Sacred Hunger Book cover of The Slave Ship: A Human History Book cover of Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Book cover of The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World Book cover of Homegoing
  • Seth Mallios The best books that confront slavery and how it impacts society today Book cover of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Book cover of Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives Book cover of Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues: Then and Now Book cover of Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
  • David Wright Faladé The best books on Black-white relations, wherein whites aren't necessarily evil & Blacks aren't merely victims Book cover of Property Book cover of Tar Baby Book cover of The Known World Book cover of Small Island Book cover of Kindred
  • Laurence Fenton The best books on the life of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Book cover of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Young Frederick Douglass Book cover of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • Helen Lundström Erwin The best historical fiction novels about women who changed history Book cover of The Help Book cover of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Book cover of Daughter of the Reich Book cover of Someone Knows My Name Book cover of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
  • Errick Nunnally The best fiction and nonfiction books involving history to thrill, disturb, and intrigue Book cover of The Slave Ship: A Human History Book cover of A Book of Tongues Book cover of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Book cover of Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel Book cover of Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
  • Jeff Matthews The best books to explain the Civil War (without all the boring battlefield stuff) Book cover of The Civil War in 50 Objects Book cover of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews With Former Slaves Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Book cover of Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
  • Lori Benton The best books on plantation life in the Antebellum South (Colonial and early federal America) Book cover of Life on a Plantation Book cover of Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery Book cover of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South Book cover of Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies Book cover of The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
  • Elizabeth Bell The best novels about the human toll of American slavery Book cover of The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses Book cover of The Prophets Book cover of Douglass' Women Book cover of Sister of Mine Book cover of Freeman
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