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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 527 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 456,037 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,253 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,505 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 347 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 422,432 ratings — published 2016
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.26 — 337,564 ratings — published 2014
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.41 — 582,514 ratings — published 2024
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,162 ratings — published 1852
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 310,003 ratings — published 2010
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,044 ratings — published 1845
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 269 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,647 ratings — published 1853
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,323 ratings — published 1861
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 200 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,349,711 ratings — published 1885
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,777 ratings — published 2008
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 121,100 ratings — published 2019
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,081 ratings — published 1976
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 92,825 ratings — published 2007
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,854 ratings — published 2018
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,267 ratings — published 2018
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,094 ratings — published 2003
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.44 — 95,154 ratings — published 2021
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 220,592 ratings — published 2022
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,699 ratings — published 2013
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,613 ratings — published 2013
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,793 ratings — published 2007
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.69 — 41,833 ratings — published 2021
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,743 ratings — published 1900
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,769 ratings — published 2010
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,268,189 ratings — published 1936
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.69 — 39,298 ratings — published 2023
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,549 ratings — published 2023
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.78 — 130,880 ratings — published 2013
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,484 ratings — published 2009
A Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 33,934 ratings — published 2008
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,108 ratings — published 1789
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 39,331 ratings — published 2013
Wench (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,682 ratings — published 2010
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,011 ratings — published 2023
The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,014 ratings — published 2013
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,219 ratings — published 2008
The Book of Lost Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.15 — 127,262 ratings — published 2020
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 47,655 ratings — published 2016
Copper Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,468 ratings — published 2006
Island Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,918 ratings — published 2009
Freedom in Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,839 ratings — published 2016
Elijah of Buxton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,408 ratings — published 2007
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,584 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,697 ratings — published 2020
Forge (Seeds of America, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,841 ratings — published 2010
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,084 ratings — published 2017
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,227 ratings — published 2016
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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