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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States
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My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery
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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
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Laurent Dubois

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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
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The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
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Robert W. Harms

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Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
WGBH Series Research Team

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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
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Sylviane A. Diouf

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The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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Kenneth S. Greenberg

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His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
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Orlando Patterson

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We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard
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From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America
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Gerry Spence

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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War
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Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

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Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves
Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves

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Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey
David M. Robertson

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History of Slavery
History of Slavery
Susanne Keegan

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World History Books

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John Hope Franklin

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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C.L.R. James

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American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund S. Morgan

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Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story
Mende Nazer

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker

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American Slavery, 1619-1877
American Slavery, 1619-1877
Peter Kolchin

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Bury the Chains
Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild

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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
John W. Blassingame

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Drew Gilpin Faust

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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
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Kenneth M. Stampp

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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Walter Johnson

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Capitalism & Slavery
Capitalism & Slavery
Eric Williams

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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
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Kate Clifford Larson

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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Kevin Bales

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

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
John Hope Franklin

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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
E. Benjamin Skinner

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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
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Andrew Ward

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White Gold
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The Black Holocaust for Beginners
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The list of books on slavery and emancipation provides a comprehensive historical account of the African slave trade, the lives and struggles of enslaved Africans, the abolitionist movement, and the fight for freedom. The books explore various themes such as the impact of slavery on American society and its role in shaping capitalism, the experiences of African Americans during the Reconstruction period, and the exploitation and enslavement of Africans by Europeans. The list also includes biographies of prominent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. Additionally, some books focus on specific events such as slave revolts or individual stories of survival and escape from slavery.

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