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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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Tacky's Revolt

By Vincent Brown ,

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The Yellow Wife
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The Yellow Wife

By Sadeqa Johnson ,

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Wake

By Rebecca Hall , Hugo Martínez (illustrator) ,

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Daughter of No Worlds
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Daughter of No Worlds

By Carissa Broadbent ,

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Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
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Captives of Conquest

By Erin Woodruff Stone ,

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Night Wherever We Go
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Night Wherever We Go

By Tracey Rose Peyton ,

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

By James Oakes ,

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Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
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Rebels in the Making

By William L. Barney ,

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An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
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An Intimate Economy

By Alexandra J. Finley ,

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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

By Nikole Hannah-Jones , Renée Watson , Nikkolas Smith (illustrator)

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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
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The Broken Constitution

By Noah Feldman ,

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Blood Like Magic
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Blood Like Magic

By Liselle Sambury ,

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A Most Precious Gift
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A Most Precious Gift

By Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock ,

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Celia, a Slave
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Celia, a Slave

By Melton A. McLaurin ,

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A History of Me
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A History of Me

By Adrea Theodore , Erin Robinson (illustrator) ,

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I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
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I've Been Here All the While

By Alaina E. Roberts ,

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The Tenant
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The Tenant

By Katrina Jackson ,

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Lucy: Ultimate Survivor
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Lucy

By Elizabeth Haywood ,

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Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
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Voices of the Enslaved

By Sophie White ,

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Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire
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Mastering the Law

By Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey ,

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In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870
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In the Blood of Our Brothers

By Jesús Sanjurjo ,

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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece
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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece

By Sara Forsdyke ,

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American Negro Slave Revolts
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American Negro Slave Revolts

By Herbert Aptheker ,

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The Haitians: A Decolonial History
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The Haitians

By Jean Casimir , Laurent Dubois (translator) ,

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The Thread Collectors
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The Thread Collectors

By Shaunna J. Edwards , Alyson Richman ,

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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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Forget the Alamo

By Bryan Burrough , Chris Tomlinson , Jason Stanford

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King of the Dark
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King of the Dark

By Ariana Nash ,

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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
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The Oldest Student

By Rita Lorraine Hubbard , Oge Mora ,

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave: Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave

By Sojourner Truth ,

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Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers
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Conquered Populations in Early Islam

By Elizabeth Urban ,

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasso, the African
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasso, the African

By Olaudah Equiano ,

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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
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South to Freedom

By Alice L. Baumgartner ,

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Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry
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Bound by Bondage

By Nicole Saffold Maskiell ,

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After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Life
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After Anne

By Logan Steiner ,

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The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
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The Democratic Collapse

By Lauren N. Haumesser ,

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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
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Reckoning with Slavery

By Jennifer L. Morgan ,

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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
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Slaves for Peanuts

By Jori Lewis ,

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Yonder
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Yonder

By Jabari Asim ,

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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

By Gregg Hecimovich ,

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The Female Breeders
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The Female Breeders

By Melanie Bokstad Horev ,

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Liberating Lomie: Memoir of an Amish Childhood
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Liberating Lomie

By Saloma Miller Furlong ,

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Touch
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Touch

By K. Marie Smith ,

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Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
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Brooding over Bloody Revenge

By Nikki M. Taylor ,

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Island on Fire
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Island on Fire

By Tom Zoellner ,

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