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Beloved
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Beloved

By Toni Morrison ,

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

By Harriet Beecher Stowe ,

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A Free Man of Color
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A Free Man of Color

By Barbara Hambly ,

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Middle Passage
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Middle Passage

By Charles Johnson ,

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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800

By John Thornton ,

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There Are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime
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There Are No Slaves in France

By Sue Peabody ,

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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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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger

By Barry Unsworth ,

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Life on a Plantation
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Life on a Plantation

By Bobbie Kalman ,

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Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend
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Tara Revisited

By Catherine Clinton ,

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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

By Kathleen M. Brown ,

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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay
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How the West Was Lost

By Stephen Aron ,

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Slave and Citizen: The Classic Comparative Study of Race Relations in the Americas
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Slave and Citizen

By Frank Tannenbaum ,

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The Invention of the White Race Vol II
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The Invention of the White Race Vol II

By Theodore W. Allen ,

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Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
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Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

By Deborah Hopkinson , James E. Ransome (illustrator) ,

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Tales of Nevèrӱon
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The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
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The Making of Haiti

By Carolyn E. Fick ,

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Flesh And Gold (Lyhhrt Trilogy)
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Flesh And Gold (Lyhhrt Trilogy)

By Phyllis Gotlieb ,

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The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
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The Dreaded Comparison

By Marjorie Spiegel ,

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Planet of Adventure: City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and The Pnume
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Planet of Adventure

By Jack Vance ,

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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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The Confessions of Nat Turner

By William Styron ,

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Cloudsplitter
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Cloudsplitter

By Russell Banks ,

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Galax-Arena
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Galax-Arena

By Gillian Rubinstein ,

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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

By Mary Prince ,

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Slavery and Society at Rome
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Slavery and Society at Rome

By Keith Bradley ,

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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine

By Peter Garnsey ,

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The Tale of Birle
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The Tale of Birle

By Cynthia Voigt ,

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Heller with a Gun: A Novel
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Heller with a Gun

By Louis L'Amour ,

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Mothers of Invention

By Drew Gilpin Faust ,

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Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
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Africans in Colonial Louisiana

By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall ,

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Shame and Necessity
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Shame and Necessity

By Bernard Williams ,

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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
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Gabriel's Rebellion

By Douglas R. Egerton ,

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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
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A History of Knowledge

By Charles Van Doren ,

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Freedom's Landing
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Freedom's Landing

By Anne McCaffrey ,

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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
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The Cotton Kingdom

By Frederick Olmsted ,

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All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery
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All on Fire

By Henry Mayer ,

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White Slaves, African Masters
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White Slaves, African Masters

By Paul Baepler (editor) ,

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The Confederate War
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The Confederate War

By Gary W. Gallagher ,

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The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany
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The Making of an Afro-American

By Dorothy Sterling ,

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

By David Brion Davis ,

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