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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

By Gaiutra Bahadur

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, Baker, Houston, Garrison, William Lloyd

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Colley, Linda

Soul Survivors (Black Classics)

By Marcia Williams

George Washington: The Founding Father (Eminent Lives)

By Johnson, Paul

Sherman: A Soldier's Life

By Kennett, Lee B

PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By Eickelmann, Christine, Small, David

Wilberforce

By Pollock, John

Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners

By Nick Duerden

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Penguin Classics)

By Seacole, Mary, Salih, Sara

Fighting for Freedom: The Story of Sam Sharpe, Nat Turner and John Brown (Faith in Action)

By Hudson, Chris, Davies, Paul Bryn, Agyare-Kumi, Uzoamaka

Son of Africa: The Story of Olaudah Equiano and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade (Faith in Action)

By Hudson, Chris

Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

By Desmond, Adrian, Moore, James

Emerson's Antislavery Writings

By Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates

By Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman

By Sterling, Dorothy

Sold: One woman's true account of modern slavery

By Muhsen, Zana, Crofts, Andrew

The Discourse of Slavery: From Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison

By Ring, Betty J., Plasa, Carl, Nfa, Carla Plasa

The Story of Slavery (Young Reading (Series 3)): 1 (3.3 Young Reading Series Three (Purple))

By Courtauld, Sarah

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

By Hirsch, Jerrold