Slavery | Crafts | 2003 | Burns, Eleanor & Sue Bouchard | Underground Railroad Sampler | “Quilt in a Day” |
Slavery | Biography | 1991 | McLaurin, Melton A | Celia, A Slave | “A true story of violence and retribution in antebellum Missouri” |
Slavery | Autobiography | 1995, 1845 | Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass | “Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator” |
Slavery | Poems | 1997 | Dunbar, Paul Laurence | Paul Laurence Dunbar, Selected Poems | “Poet Laureate of the Negro race” |
Slavery | Illustrations | 1995 | Feelings, Tom | The Middle Passage | “White Ships, Black Cargo” |
Slavery | Documentary | 1988 | Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth | Within the Plantation Household | “Black and White Women of the Old South” |
Slavery | History | 1974, 1947 | Franklin, John Hope | From Slavery to Freedom | “A History of Negro Americans” revolutionary black struggle for equality in the west |
Slavery | Historical Reference | 2011 | Gann, Marjorie and Janet Willen | Five Thousand Years of Slavery | Accounts of slavery by location |
Slavery | Documentary | 1976, 1972 | Genovese, Eugene D. | Roll, Jordan, Roll | “The World The Slaves Made” |
Slavery | Historical Fiction | 1976 | Haley, Alex | Roots | Story of an African family forced into the American slave trade |
Slavery | Documentary | 2004 | Isaac, Rhys | Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom | “Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation” |
Slavery | Autobiography | 1987, 1861 | Jacobs, Harriet | Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl | “Written By Herself”, autobiography of a slave turned fugitive's struggle for freedom in America |
Slavery | History | 1999 | Johnson, Charles & Patricia Smith | Africans in America | “America's Journey through Slavery” |
Slavery | History | 1993, 1993 | Kolchin, Peter | American Slavery | “1619-1877” |
Slavery | Biography | 1997 | Lipking, Joanna | Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave | Story of an African European in seventeenth century |
Slavery | Poems | 1999 | McKay, Claude | Claude McKay, Selected Poems | Jamaican American poet writes on oppression |
Slavery | Documentary | 1972 | Merk, Frederick | Slavery and the Annexation of Texas | Early American government struggles with state independence |
Slavery | History | 2022 | Raines, Ben | The Last Slave Ship | “The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning” |
Slavery | Poems | 1997 | Sherman, Joan R. | African-American Poetry | “An Anthology, 1773-1927” |
Slavery | Historical Fiction | 2001 | Sterne, Emma Gelders | The Story of the Amistad | Story of mutiny on African slaveboat, landing in America |
Slavery | Autobiography | 1970 | Still, Peter and Vina | The Kidnapped and the Ransomed | “The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery” |
Slavery | Historical Fiction | 2005, 1852 | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Abolitionist story portraying slavery |
Slavery | History | 1997 | Thomas, Hugh | The Slave Trade | “The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870” |
Slavery | Autobiography | 1997, 1850 | Olive, Gilbert | Narrative of Sojourner Truth | “a rare glimpse into the little-documented world of Northern slavery” |
Slavery | Biography | 2004 | Larson, Kate Clifford | Bound For The Promised Land | “Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero” |
Slavery | History | 2019 | Walvin, James | Freedom | “The Overthrowing of the Slave Empires” |
Slavery | Autobiography | 1995, 1901 | Washington, Booker T | Up From Slavery | “events in a remarkable life that began in bondage” |
Slavery | Non-Fiction | 1990, 1898 | Matthews, Victoria Earle | Black Diamonds | “The Wisdom of Booker T. Washington” |
Slavery | Autobiography | 1991 | Decosta-Willis, Miriam | The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells | “An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman” |
Slavery | Biography | 2010, 2009 | Bay, Mia | To Tell the Truth Freely | “The Life of Ida B. Wells” |