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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

By Davis

Slavery and Human Progress

By David Brion Davis

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

By Davis, David Brion

Women and Slavery, Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic

By Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba

By William C. Van Norman

African Americans and Africa: A New History

By Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas

By Mary Turner

The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech

By Shane White, Graham White

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa

By Lamin O. Sanneh

Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing

By B. Talton, Q. Mills

The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

By E. Hinton

The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972

By Ibram X. Kendi

The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction

By E. Hinton

Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction

By N. Rousseau

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions

By Joseph Mensah

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968

By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne

Black Panthers 1968

By Howard L. Bingham

Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

By Gunther Schuller

Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

By Eric Foner, Steven Hahn

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

By Quintard Taylor, Jr. (University of Washington, Seattle)

Life in Tanzania Today and Since the Sixties

By Ndembwike, John

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Taylor Branch

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in the Black Community Edition: Reprint

By Carol B. Stack