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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 528 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,585 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,292 ratings — published 1979
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,510 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,385 ratings — published 2016
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.41 — 612,598 ratings — published 2024
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.26 — 340,425 ratings — published 2014
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.92 — 247,909 ratings — published 1852
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 314,230 ratings — published 2010
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,007 ratings — published 1845
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 271 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,641 ratings — published 1853
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,924 ratings — published 1861
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 203 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,356,878 ratings — published 1885
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.10 — 60,066 ratings — published 2008
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,185 ratings — published 2019
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,951 ratings — published 1976
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 93,466 ratings — published 2007
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,371 ratings — published
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,783 ratings — published 2018
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,624 ratings — published 2003
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.44 — 101,470 ratings — published 2021
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.23 — 226,624 ratings — published 2022
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,761 ratings — published 2013
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,839 ratings — published 2013
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,833 ratings — published 2021
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,833 ratings — published 2007
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.11 — 37,096 ratings — published 1900
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.68 — 40,136 ratings — published 2023
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.35 — 87,476 ratings — published 2010
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,273,992 ratings — published 1936
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,994 ratings — published 2023
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,838 ratings — published 2009
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.78 — 133,923 ratings — published 2013
A Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.78 — 34,524 ratings — published 2008
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,293 ratings — published 1789
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 39,825 ratings — published 2013
Wench (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,803 ratings — published 2010
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,510 ratings — published 2023
The Book of Lost Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.14 — 129,550 ratings — published 2020
The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,352 ratings — published 2013
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,268 ratings — published 2008
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.32 — 48,834 ratings — published 2016
Copper Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,612 ratings — published 2006
Island Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.12 — 48,634 ratings — published 2009
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,713 ratings — published 2019
Freedom in Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,846 ratings — published 2016
Elijah of Buxton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,515 ratings — published 2007
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,566 ratings — published 2020
Capitalism & Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,827 ratings — published 1944
Forge (Seeds of America, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,023 ratings — published 2010
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,438 ratings — published 2017
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
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