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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,349,174 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 246,032 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 137,950 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 166,039 ratings
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Beloved
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3.99 avg rating — 507,716 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 288,498 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,718 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 126,577 ratings
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Slaves in the Family
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4.03 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.18 avg rating — 59,294 ratings
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Benito Cereno
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3.53 avg rating — 10,251 ratings
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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3.74 avg rating — 15,100 ratings
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Cane River
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4.08 avg rating — 50,865 ratings
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North and South (North and South, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 62,830 ratings
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Amistad
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3.87 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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4.17 avg rating — 14,352 ratings
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
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4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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4.06 avg rating — 455,532 ratings
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Middle Passage
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3.86 avg rating — 5,567 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
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3.48 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Sally Hemings
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3.97 avg rating — 1,676 ratings
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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
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3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 7,627 ratings
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Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
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3.99 avg rating — 69 ratings
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A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 3,620 ratings
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Jubilee
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4.38 avg rating — 7,212 ratings
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Amistad
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3.83 avg rating — 616 ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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4.38 avg rating — 12,408 ratings
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Women's Slave Narratives
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3.72 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
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3.96 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
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3.99 avg rating — 49,114 ratings
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Property
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3.70 avg rating — 5,959 ratings
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Wench
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3.74 avg rating — 18,668 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 73,217 ratings
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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History
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4.51 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 92,764 ratings
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
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4.02 avg rating — 475 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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4.09 avg rating — 10,756 ratings
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
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4.47 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,764 ratings
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
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3.82 avg rating — 694 ratings
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A Mercy
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3.77 avg rating — 33,888 ratings
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Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
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3.74 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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The Kitchen House
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4.24 avg rating — 309,603 ratings
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The Book of Night Women
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4.37 avg rating — 15,464 ratings
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Iola Leroy
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3.54 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
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3.92 avg rating — 2,479 ratings
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"Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America
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3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 273,412 ratings
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By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
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4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Feast of All Saints
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3.88 avg rating — 18,793 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
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4.06 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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4.02 avg rating — 7,209 ratings
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The Minister's Wooing
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3.60 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from The Federal Writers' Project
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4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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For God, Country and the Confederacy: Completing the Circle of Acceptance
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Woman Named Solitude
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3.58 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Dessa Rose
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3.81 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
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3.62 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,214 ratings
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Echo of Lions
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3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The President's Daughter
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3.75 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Pull Of Freedom
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4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Pilgrims Rest
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3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In the Land of Cotton
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
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4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Murder Along Burley Creek
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin
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4.08 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Lincoln Hypothesis: A Modern-day Abolitionist Investigates the Possible Connection Between Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and Abraham Lincoln
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4.18 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
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4.23 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
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Steering to Freedom
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4.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Yoke of Wind
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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3.87 avg rating — 130 ratings
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In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
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4.25 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Nightjohn
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3.86 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
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White Slave: The True Story of Richard Haselton
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Brothers of the Wind (Angloromani Family Saga)
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3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Seeds of Slavery
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4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
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3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 12,496 ratings
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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3.87 avg rating — 4,256 ratings
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Yellow Wife
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4.44 avg rating — 94,587 ratings
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Lost Seeds: The Beginning (Lost Seeds, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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4.26 avg rating — 6,318 ratings
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The Cimaroons
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, and England
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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4.15 avg rating — 5,890 ratings
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Fox Creek: A Novel (The Fox Creek Plantation, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 147 ratings
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A Flash In Time
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4.55 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Glow
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3.62 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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Copper Sun
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4.36 avg rating — 17,458 ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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4.12 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
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4.18 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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My Larger Education: Chapters from My Experience
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4.43 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Am I Not a Man?: The Dred Scott Story
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3.91 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
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3.99 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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3.86 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
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3.55 avg rating — 97 ratings
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