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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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Island Queen
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Kindred
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
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4.17 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
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3.46 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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4.13 avg rating — 136,410 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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4.17 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
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The Deep
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3.77 avg rating — 40,839 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 586,622 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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3.92 avg rating — 8,582 ratings
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The Conductors (Murder and Magic, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 4,154 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.61 avg rating — 24,851 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 118,399 ratings
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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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4.17 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook
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4.20 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Homegoing
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4.47 avg rating — 410,622 ratings
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On Juneteenth
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 163,692 ratings
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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4.27 avg rating — 6,168 ratings
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Juneteenth
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3.60 avg rating — 2,278 ratings
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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
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3.95 avg rating — 397 ratings
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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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4.08 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Yonder
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4.18 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
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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 — 5,388 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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4.04 avg rating — 159 ratings
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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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4.01 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
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3.85 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
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3.95 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes From Across the African Diaspora
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4.46 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen
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4.25 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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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 — 913 ratings
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The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
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4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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4.49 avg rating — 25,800 ratings
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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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4.42 avg rating — 1,529 ratings
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Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires
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3.77 avg rating — 65 ratings
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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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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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#Blacklivesmatter: Protesting Racism: Protesting Racism (#movements)
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3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
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4.20 avg rating — 115 ratings
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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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4.37 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South
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3.56 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Day the Klan Came to Town
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3.50 avg rating — 339 ratings
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
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4.32 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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4.16 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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3.82 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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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 — 598 ratings
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
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4.17 avg rating — 3,347 ratings
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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
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4.08 avg rating — 833 ratings
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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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4.05 avg rating — 270 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 — 602 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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4.34 avg rating — 3,005 ratings
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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 — 1,145 ratings
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
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4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
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3.62 avg rating — 1,359 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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3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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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 — 499 ratings
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
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4.32 avg rating — 295 ratings
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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3.89 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Amistad: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner
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3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Disgruntled
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3.66 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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Queen of Exiles
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