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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 526 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 453,081 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,290 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.99 — 503,079 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 345 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 417,100 ratings — published 2016
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.26 — 336,206 ratings — published 2014
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.42 — 562,905 ratings — published 2024
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 307,671 ratings — published 2010
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.92 — 245,288 ratings — published 1852
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,385 ratings — published 1845
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 267 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,158 ratings — published 1853
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,037 ratings — published 1861
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 199 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,192 ratings — published 1885
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,518 ratings — published 2008
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 120,575 ratings — published 2019
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 165,751 ratings — published 1976
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 92,428 ratings — published 2007
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,601 ratings — published 2018
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.94 — 73,666 ratings — published 2018
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,809 ratings — published 2003
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 216,764 ratings — published 2022
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.44 — 92,439 ratings — published 2021
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,678 ratings — published 2013
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,496 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 — 16,782 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 4.70 — 41,250 ratings — published 2021
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,609 ratings — published 1900
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,306 ratings — published 2010
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,265,076 ratings — published 1936
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.69 — 38,908 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 — 19,299 ratings — published 2023
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,338 ratings — published 2009
A Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 33,620 ratings — published 2008
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.78 — 128,778 ratings — published 2013
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,062 ratings — published 1789
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 39,066 ratings — published 2013
Wench (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,609 ratings — published 2010
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,660 ratings — published 2023
The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,816 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 — 7,187 ratings — published 2008
The Book of Lost Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.15 — 125,773 ratings — published 2020
Copper Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,390 ratings — published 2006
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,997 ratings — published 2016
Island Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,564 ratings — published 2009
Freedom in Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,840 ratings — published 2016
Elijah of Buxton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,349 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 — 5,492 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,427 ratings — published 2020
Forge (Seeds of America, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,732 ratings — published 2010
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,894 ratings — published 2017
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,169 ratings — published 2016
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
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“You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance—no matter how improved—as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
