Twelve years a slave

Solomon Northup

1853 ★ 4.5

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

1901 ★ 4.4

The slave community

John W. Blassingame

1972

The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Olaudah Equiano

1789 ★ 4.0

From slavery to freedom

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.

1947

To Be a Slave (Plus)

Julius Lester

1968 ★ 4.8

The peculiar institution

Kenneth M. Stampp

1956

Celia, a sla

Melton Alonza McLaurin

1991

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Nancy Harrison, Yona Zeldis McDonough

2002 ★ 5.0

Tituba of Salem Village

Ann Lane Petry

1988

Prince among slaves

Terry Alford

1986

American slavery, American freedom

Edmund Sears Morgan

1975

Time on the cross

Robert William Fogel

1974

Ebony and Ivy

Craig Steven Wilder

2013

Soul by Soul

Walter Johnson, Tom Perkins

1999

Life and times of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, Mr.George L. Ruffin, Celeste-Marie Bernier et al.

1881

Slavery; a problem in American institutional and intellectual life

Stanley M. Elkins, Stanley M Elkins

1959

Amos Fortune

Elizabeth Yates

1950

Frederick Douglass Fights for Freedom,

Margaret Davidson

1968

Go Free or Die

Jeri Ferris

1988

Harriet Tubman

Kathleen V. Kudlinski

2002

The price for their pound of flesh

Daina Ramey Berry

2017

Two tickets to freedom

Florence B. Freeman, Florence B. Freedman

1989

Escape from slavery

Doreen Rappaport

1991

Time on the cross : the economics of American Negro slavery

Stanley L. Engerman, Robert William Fogel

1995

Slavery

James Meadows

2002

Many Thousand Gone

Virginia Hamilton

1993

Hidden in plain view

Raymond G. Dobard, Jacqueline L. Tobin, Jacqueline Tobin

1999

Slavery in the United States

Charles Ball

1837

The cotton kingdom

Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.

1861