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The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 519 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 442,997 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 269,251 ratings — published 1979
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 342 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.26 — 331,525 ratings — published 2014
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.98 — 488,257 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 400,249 ratings — published 2016
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 293 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.44 — 476,684 ratings — published 2024
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.92 — 242,165 ratings — published 1852
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.23 — 301,451 ratings — published 2010
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 265 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.23 — 124,667 ratings — published 1853
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,509 ratings — published 1845
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,914 ratings — published 1861
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 199 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,334,507 ratings — published 1885
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,773 ratings — published 2008
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.06 — 118,770 ratings — published 2019
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,619 ratings — published 1976
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.47 — 91,267 ratings — published 2007
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,667 ratings — published 2018
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,413 ratings — published 2018
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,022 ratings — published 2003
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.24 — 203,046 ratings — published 2022
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,590 ratings — published 2013
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,171 ratings — published 2013
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.43 — 84,574 ratings — published 2021
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,656 ratings — published 2007
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,016 ratings — published 1900
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.70 — 39,333 ratings — published 2021
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.34 — 84,945 ratings — published 2010
Let Us Descend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.69 — 37,466 ratings — published 2023
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,254,407 ratings — published 1936
The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.37 — 15,046 ratings — published 2009
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,722 ratings — published 1789
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,050 ratings — published 2013
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.78 — 122,279 ratings — published 2013
A Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,668 ratings — published 2008
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 18,428 ratings — published 2023
Wench (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,402 ratings — published 2010
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,505 ratings — published 2023
The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,260 ratings — published 2013
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,112 ratings — published 2008
The Book of Lost Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.15 — 121,117 ratings — published 2020
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,503 ratings — published 2016
Copper Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.35 — 17,113 ratings — published 2006
Island Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.11 — 46,357 ratings — published 2009
Elijah of Buxton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,247 ratings — published 2007
Freedom in Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,825 ratings — published 2016
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,221 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,405 ratings — published 2020
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,000 ratings — published 2016
Forge (Seeds of America, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as slavery)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,498 ratings — published 2010
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as slavery)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,497 ratings — published 2017
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
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