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  • 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
  • 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
  • Michael C. White The best novels about slavery from both sides Book cover of The Confessions of Nat Turner Book cover of The Underground Railroad Book cover of Beloved Book cover of The Known World Book cover of Cloudsplitter
  • Vaunda Micheaux Nelson The best children’s books about freedom Book cover of The Lemming Condition Book cover of Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust Book cover of The People Could Fly: The Picture Book Book cover of Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life Book cover of How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nicholas Hudson The best books that show why the Enlightenment is the beginning of the modern world Book cover of The Lunar Men: A Story of Science, Art, Invention and Passion Book cover of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Book cover of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Book cover of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 Book cover of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction
  • Eric Nellis The best books on African slavery in the Americas Book cover of Slave and Citizen: The Classic Comparative Study of Race Relations in the Americas Book cover of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 Book cover of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Book cover of The Strange Career of Jim Crow Book cover of Between the World and Me
  • Marcia E. Herman-Giddens The best books on ancestry, genealogy, racial justice and travel to find the truth Book cover of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth Book cover of The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 Book cover of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  • Nina Silber The best books on the ongoing legacy of the American Civil War Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Book cover of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Book cover of On Juneteenth Book cover of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Book cover of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
  • Matthew Pratt Guterl The best and most heartbreaking memoirs of race and adoption Book cover of Jesus Land: A Memoir Book cover of All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir Book cover of That Mean Old Yesterday Book cover of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption Book cover of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
  • Rashad Harrison The best thrillers and mysteries inhabited by history Book cover of The Third Man Book cover of The Ballad of Black Tom Book cover of The Cutting Season Book cover of Forty Acres: A Thriller Book cover of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  • Onyeka Nubia The best history books about everyone and for everyone Book cover of Black British History: New Perspectives Book cover of Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850 Book cover of In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process 1: The Colonial Period Book cover of The Healers
  • Randy E. Barnett The best books on slavery and the constitution Book cover of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding, With a New Preface Book cover of The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 Book cover of Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
  • Jeffrey L. Richards The best LGBT+ novels that haunt me (in a good way) Book cover of As Meat Loves Salt Book cover of Grief Book cover of The Prophets Book cover of At Swim, Two Boys Book cover of Was
  • Massimo Marino The best books in the rise and fall of Galactic Empires Book cover of The Stars, Like Dust Book cover of Dune Book cover of Flesh And Gold (Lyhhrt Trilogy) Book cover of Ender's Game Book cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Joshua D. Rothman The best books from the last ten years on the domestic slave trade Book cover of Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home Book cover of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation Book cover of An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade Book cover of Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade Book cover of The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
  • Xolani Kacela The best books for people who seek a deep understanding of human nature Book cover of The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth Book cover of The Vanishing Half Book cover of The Known World Book cover of Jazz Book cover of Pulling Your Own Strings: Dynamic Techniques for Dealing with Other People and Living Your Life As You Choose
  • Radhika Natarajan The best books to understand why imperial history matters today Book cover of Orientalism Book cover of Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora Book cover of Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment Book cover of The Fourth World: An Indian Reality Book cover of The Long Song
  • Bob Zeidman The best dystopian books that are great lessons for today Book cover of Animal Farm Book cover of Brainwave: The Greatest Masterpiece by the Science Fiction Grandmaster Book cover of Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus Book cover of Atlas Shrugged Book cover of Planet of the Apes
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