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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
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Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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The Deep
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1)
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites
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The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook
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Homegoing
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On Juneteenth
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Juneteenth
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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
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The Underground Railroad
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Sweet Home Café Cookbook: A Celebration of African American Cooking
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Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life
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Yonder
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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4.29 avg rating — 5,260 ratings
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Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
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4.06 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
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Fix Me a Plate: Traditional and New School Soul Food Recipes from Scotty Scott of Cook Drank Eat
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
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3.84 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
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3.94 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes From Across the African Diaspora
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4.46 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen
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The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey
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The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
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3.59 avg rating — 892 ratings
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The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
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Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires
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Twelve Years a Slave
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The Life of Frederick Douglas
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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
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Gay People of Color: Facing Prejudices, Forging Identities
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
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4.03 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation
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Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South
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3.57 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey
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The Day the Klan Came to Town
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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4.16 avg rating — 4,195 ratings
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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The Invisible Empire: Madge Oberholtzer And The Unmasking Of The Ku Klux Klan
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3.45 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
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3.62 avg rating — 594 ratings
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
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4.16 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
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4.06 avg rating — 269 ratings
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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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4.38 avg rating — 598 ratings
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The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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4.33 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
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4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
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3.62 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
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Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865
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3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Stories of Slavery in New Jersey
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
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4.39 avg rating — 493 ratings
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
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4.31 avg rating — 292 ratings
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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3.89 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Amistad: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner
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3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Disgruntled
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Queen of Exiles
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