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Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom

By Louis Hughes

Slaves in the Family

By Edward Ball

Young Frederick Douglass: The Slave Who Learned to Read

By Linda Walvoord Girard, Colin Bootman

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

By Solomon Northup

The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

By Kathleen Mary Butler

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Servitude in Modern Times

By M. L. Bush (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Robin Law, Paul E. Lovejoy

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

By olaudah equiano, Vincent Carretta

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Greed, Seeds and Slavery

By Ross, Stewart, Roberts, David

Lincoln

By D. Herbert

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

By Katie Hickman

Iqbal

By Francesco D'Adamo, Ann Leonori

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

By Trevor Burnard

The Interesting Narrative

By olaudah equiano, Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University)

The Book of Negroes: The award-winning classic bestseller

By LAWRENCE HILL

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman

By Sterling, Dorothy

Slave Young, Slave Long: The American Slave Experience (People's History)

By Greene, Meg

Wilberforce: God's Statesman

By Pollock, John

Race: Vintage Minis

By Morrison, Toni

The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman

By Moulton, Phillips

Without Mercy: A Mother's Struggle Against Modern Slavery

By Ali, Miriam

Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love

By Macy, Beth

God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations

By McDonald, Chine

Though The Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial that Led to the End of Human Slavery

By Wise, Steven M.

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

By Alondra Nelson

Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep

By Siba Shakib, Shaun Whiteside