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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,688 ratings — published 1861
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,081 ratings — published 1845
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,194 ratings — published 1789
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,325 ratings — published 1853
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 604,367 ratings — published 2024
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,375 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,659 ratings — published 1979
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,656 ratings — published 1831
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,789 ratings — published 1850
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,213 ratings — published
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,473 ratings — published 1853
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,971 ratings — published 1900
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.89 — 875 ratings — published
The Prophets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,411 ratings — published 2021
Iola Leroy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,838 ratings — published 1892
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 247,317 ratings — published 1852
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,479 ratings — published 2003
Oroonoko (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.01 — 17,558 ratings — published 1688
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,331 ratings — published 1987
The Heroic Slave (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.79 — 695 ratings — published 1853
A Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,326 ratings — published 2008
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,389 ratings — published 1968
My Bondage and My Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,450 ratings — published 1855
Sweetbitter Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,821 ratings — published 2026
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada (Bibliolife Reproduction Series)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.36 — 600 ratings — published 1858
Blood Slaves (The Blood Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,645 ratings — published 2025
Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century (Race, Inequality, and Health)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire, #11)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.41 — 22,830 ratings — published 2018
Freedom In My Heart: Voices From The United States National Slavery Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2008
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.51 — 395 ratings — published 1988
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.80 — 684 ratings — published 2006
"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.54 — 108 ratings — published
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.24 — 312,909 ratings — published 2010
Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood, #1-3)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.19 — 30,610 ratings — published 1984
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.44 — 153 ratings — published 2024
Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 28 ratings — published 2014
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Two Memoirs of Notable African-Americans During the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.48 — 48 ratings — published
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,877 ratings — published 2023
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,379 ratings — published 2023
Blake or The Huts of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.14 — 383 ratings — published 1969
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 - Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, The Souls of Black Folk, Behind the Scenes, Life of Josiah Henson, Narrative of Sojourner ... (Slave Narrative Six Pack Boxset)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 2015
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,767 ratings — published 2007
She Would Be King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,517 ratings — published 2018
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,700 ratings — published 2009
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 19 ratings — published 2020
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.96 — 39,702 ratings — published 2013
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1836
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,118 ratings — published 1986
Abolition Fanaticism in New York: Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 29 ratings — published 1847
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slave-narrative)
avg rating 4.24 — 364 ratings — published 1994
