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Young Frederick Douglass: The Slave Who Learned to Read

By Linda Walvoord Girard, Colin Bootman

Slaves in the Family

By Edward Ball

Slaves in the Family

By Edward Ball

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Linda Colley

Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions

By Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg

John Clarkson and the African Adventure

By Ellen Gibson Wilson

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

By Stuart Laing

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists

By J.P. Miller

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Thomas Clarkson: A Biography

By Ellen Gibson Wilson

Trailblazers: Harriet Tubman

By Sandra A. Agard

To be a Slave

By Julius Lester

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: Band 13/Topaz (Collins Big Cat)

By Philip Steele, Alexander Jansson, Collins Big Cat

Civil Rights Stories: Slavery

By Catherine Chambers, Toby Newsome

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition) (Vintage Classics)

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, Peterson, Jordan

Twelve Years A Slave (Scholastic Readers)

By Rollason, Jane

Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

By Amanda Mitchison

The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

By olaudah equiano

ELIZABETH HEYRICK: The Making of an Anti-slavery Campaigner

By JOCELYN. ROBSON

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By Erik Larson

Black Ajax

By George MacDonald Rsaser

Amazing Grace: John Newton, slavery and the world's most enduring song

By Steve Turner (Author)

Up from Slavery

By Booker T. Washington, William L. Andrews (Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, University of Kansas)

Ruffin

By David F. Allmendinger