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  1. Let Us Descend : A Novel

    Ward, Jesmyn
    Scribner 2023

    OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKInstant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more....

  2. The House with the Golden Door

    Harper, Elodie
    Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

    The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller 'Brutal yet beautiful, heartfelt yet harrowing, this is one compulsive read' Susan Stokes-Chapman Amara has escaped her life as a slave in Pompei...

  3. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

    Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
    HarperCollins Publishers 2021

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 'Deeply moving' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Remarkable' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) 'A sweeping epic ... Outstandi...

  4. The Wolf Den

    Harper, Elodie
    Bloomsbury Publishing 2021

    Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book Awards A Waterstones Book of the MonthWinner of the 2022 Glass Bell Award 'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph...

  5. The Dozier School for Boys : Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past

    Murray, Elizabeth A.
    Lerner Publishing Group 2019

    Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the chi...

  6. Washington Black : A Novel

    Edugyan, Esi
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2018

    One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review One of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francis...

  7. Washington Black : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

    Edugyan, Esi
    Profile 2018

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 'A masterpiece' Attica Locke'Strong, beautiful and...

  8. A Spy Called James : The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent

    Rockwell, Anne
    Lerner Publishing Group 2016

    Told for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette—a slave who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution. After his resoundi...

  9. Like a Bird : The Art of the American Slave Song

    Grady, Cynthia
    Lerner Publishing Group 2016

    Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms—including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bonda...

  10. Forgotten Bones : Uncovering a Slave Cemetery

    Huey, Lois Miner
    Lerner Publishing Group 2015

    An ordinary construction project uncovers an amazing archaeological discovery. Imagine you're watching a backhoe dig up the ground for a construction project when a round object...

  11. Daniel

    Adams, Richard
    Watership Down Enterprises 2014

    Born into the most desperate circumstances in slave-quarters in the deep South at the end of the nineteenth century, Daniel grows up a slave on a cotton plantation in the US. It se...

  12. A Boy Named Beckoning : The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero

    Capaldi, Gina
    Lerner Publishing Group 2014

    This story reveals the remarkable life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, or "Beckoning," who was kidnapped from his Yavapai tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted by an Italian p...

  13. Almost to Freedom

    Nelson Vaunda Micheaux
    Lerner Publishing Group 2014

    Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night L...

  14. A Matter of Souls

    Patrick, Denise Lewis
    Lerner Publishing Group 2014

    From the shores of Africa to the bowels of a transatlantic ship to a voting booth in Mississippi to the jungles of Vietnam, all human connection is a matter of souls.In this stirri...

  15. Mumbet's Declaration of Independence

    Woelfle, Gretchen
    Lerner Publishing Group 2014

    "All men are born free and equal." Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed t...

  16. Twelve Years a Slave

    Northup, Solomon
    Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013

    In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washi...

  17. Ben-Hur : AUK Classics

    Wallace, Lew
    Andrews UK 2010 1. edition

    One of the most famous of all classic stories, this exciting tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation is a must-have addition to any digital bookshelf. Specially formatted for toda...

  18. Slave

    Brooks, Cheryl
    Sourcebooks 2008

    He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy"I found him in the slave market on Orpheseus Prime, and even on such a god-forsaken planet as that...