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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 127,155 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.18 avg rating — 59,583 ratings
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Beloved
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3.99 avg rating — 513,875 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 247,068 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,353,446 ratings
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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3.74 avg rating — 15,165 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
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4.03 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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4.44 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
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4.26 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Dead Reckoning: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure (Valkyrie, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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4.12 avg rating — 2,067 ratings
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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3.88 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Ill Wind (Valkyrie, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 166,434 ratings
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RUNAWAY SLAVES: REBELS ON THE PLANTATION: Rebels on the Plantation
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4.12 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,640 ratings
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Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
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4.24 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
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4.11 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
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4.02 avg rating — 327 ratings
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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
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3.86 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
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3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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3.96 avg rating — 15,383 ratings
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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
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4.16 avg rating — 568 ratings
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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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3.95 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (African Studies, Series Number 100)
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3.72 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books)
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3.93 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
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3.74 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Black Society in Spanish Florida
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4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
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3.49 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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4.45 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
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4.47 avg rating — 425 ratings
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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4.12 avg rating — 3,574 ratings
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Someone Knows My Name
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4.47 avg rating — 93,194 ratings
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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3.97 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Slavernij en de Memorie / Slaaf en Meester
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3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria
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3.93 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 59,945 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Theologian Slave Trader
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: The powerful anti-slavery novel, with bonus material: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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4.10 avg rating — 90 ratings
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A Respectable Trade
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3.82 avg rating — 9,902 ratings
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The Coming: A Novel
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4.44 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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A Mercy
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3.77 avg rating — 34,245 ratings
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To Ravensrigg
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
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3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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4.20 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
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4.52 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Wij slaven van Suriname
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4.30 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
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My Name is Resolute
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4.24 avg rating — 8,368 ratings
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A New Creature
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships: Property, Plunder and Loss
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Brave Music of a Distant Drum
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3.85 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
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3.97 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Away to Sea
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
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4.05 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,913 ratings
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Unconfessed
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3.43 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
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4.24 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 167 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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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 — 163 ratings
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Amistad
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3.87 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
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3.46 avg rating — 632 ratings
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From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
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4.27 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
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4.07 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
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3.81 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Benito Cereno
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3.53 avg rating — 10,336 ratings
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The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
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3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings
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From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
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3.72 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
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4.31 avg rating — 716 ratings
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
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3.20 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
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3.78 avg rating — 96 ratings
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History of Slavery: An Illustrated History of the Monstrous Evil
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4.17 avg rating — 18 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 — 7,243 ratings
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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3.86 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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4.23 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
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4.35 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
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4.03 avg rating — 515 ratings
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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3.90 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Short History of Slavery
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3.74 avg rating — 227 ratings
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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4.18 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
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3.95 avg rating — 21 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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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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4.45 avg rating — 5,736 ratings
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Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
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3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
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4.22 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
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3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
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3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science – An Epic Illustrated History for Teens About Revolution and Human Resilience
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3.67 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
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The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
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3.83 avg rating — 700 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
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4.02 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Interesting list!
Love this site, but this is not a list on the African Slave Trade, it is a list of books about slavery. With rare exceptions (and, of course, those born to slaves already arrived in the New World), people did not become slaves upon reaching North/South America & the Caribbean -- they ARRIVED as slaves. The slave trade was the business of acquiring, transporting and selling human beings, i.e., how they became slaves. This is a great list for self-education on the slave experience. It is relatively useless as a focused resource for finding books -- e.g., Thomas' The Slave Trade and Northrup's The Atlantic Slave Trade (which are here) or William's Capitalism & Slavery (which isn't ) -- on the Atlantic Slave Trade. Those are harder to find and a list specific to that aspect of slavery would be very useful for those of us wanting to learn about the trade.
Thank you for assembling such a comperehensive list!