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1) The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
2) African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer
3) A Slave No More by David W. Blight
4) American Slavery American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan + We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard by Belinda Hurmence
5) American to the Backbone by Christopher L. Webber
6) The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker + *Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones
7) Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
8) Ar'n't I a Woman? by Deborah Gray White + Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement by Kathryn Kish Sklar
9) The Bone and Sinew of the Land by Anna-Lisa Cox
10) The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
11) Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
12) Black Fortunes by Shomari Wills
13) Dismal Freedom by J. Brent Morris + *City of Refuge by Marcus P. Nevius
14) Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner
15) Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder
16) Embattled Freedom by Amy Murrell Taylor
17) Five for Freedom by Eugene L. Meyer
*18) When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel by LaTanya McQueen
19) The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 by Peter Charles Hoffer + New York Burning by Jill Lepore
20) Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell
21) Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
22) High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris
*23) Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
24) The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor
25) Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely
26) The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines
27) The Last Slave Ships by John Harris
28) The Ledger and the Chain by Joshua D. Rothman
*29) A Madman's Will by Gregory May
30) Stono by Mark M. Smith
31) Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel
32) Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin
33) Africatown by Nick Tabor
34) A Most Tolerant Little Town by Rachel Louise Martin
35) Necropolis by Kathryn Olivarius
36) Vanguard by Martha S. Jones
37) New England Bound by Wendy Warren
38) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
39) The Original Black Elite by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
40) Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis Graham
41) Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
42) The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
43) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
44) Red, White, and Black Make Blue by Andrea Feeser + Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition by Joyce V. Coakley
45) Runaway Slaves Rebels On the Plantation by John Hope Franklin + The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame
46) Searching for Black Confederates by Kevin M. Levin
47) The Gullah People and Their African Heritage by William S. Pollitzer
48) The White Bonus by Tracie McMillan
49) Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin
*50) Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf
Bonus Reads:
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
*Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
*The Wanderer by Erik Calonius
*A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
*Wake by Rebecca Hall
*Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
*The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
*Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
*They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
*The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
*How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
*An Emancipation of the Mind by Matthew Stewart
*The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret by Mary V. Thompson
*The Battle of Negro Fort by Matthew J. Clavin
*The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
*Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America's Wars by Eugene DeFriest Bétit
*The Survivors of the Clotilda by Hannah Durkin
*Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
*The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh
*Supreme Injustice by Paul Finkelman
*Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America by Rita Omokha
1) The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
2) African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer
3) A Slave No More by David W. Blight
4) American Slavery American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan + We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard by Belinda Hurmence
5) American to the Backbone by Christopher L. Webber
6) The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker + *Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones
7) Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
8) Ar'n't I a Woman? by Deborah Gray White + Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement by Kathryn Kish Sklar
9) The Bone and Sinew of the Land by Anna-Lisa Cox
10) The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
11) Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
12) Black Fortunes by Shomari Wills
13) Dismal Freedom by J. Brent Morris + *City of Refuge by Marcus P. Nevius
14) Down by the Riverside by Charles Joyner
15) Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder
16) Embattled Freedom by Amy Murrell Taylor
17) Five for Freedom by Eugene L. Meyer
*18) When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel by LaTanya McQueen
19) The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 by Peter Charles Hoffer + New York Burning by Jill Lepore
20) Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell
21) Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
22) High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris
*23) Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
24) The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor
25) Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely
26) The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines
27) The Last Slave Ships by John Harris
28) The Ledger and the Chain by Joshua D. Rothman
*29) A Madman's Will by Gregory May
30) Stono by Mark M. Smith
31) Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel
32) Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin
33) Africatown by Nick Tabor
34) A Most Tolerant Little Town by Rachel Louise Martin
35) Necropolis by Kathryn Olivarius
36) Vanguard by Martha S. Jones
37) New England Bound by Wendy Warren
38) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
39) The Original Black Elite by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
40) Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis Graham
41) Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
42) The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
43) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
44) Red, White, and Black Make Blue by Andrea Feeser + Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition by Joyce V. Coakley
45) Runaway Slaves Rebels On the Plantation by John Hope Franklin + The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame
46) Searching for Black Confederates by Kevin M. Levin
47) The Gullah People and Their African Heritage by William S. Pollitzer
48) The White Bonus by Tracie McMillan
49) Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin
*50) Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf
Bonus Reads:
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
*Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
*The Wanderer by Erik Calonius
*A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
*Wake by Rebecca Hall
*Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
*The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
*Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
*They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
*The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
*How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
*An Emancipation of the Mind by Matthew Stewart
*The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret by Mary V. Thompson
*The Battle of Negro Fort by Matthew J. Clavin
*The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
*Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America's Wars by Eugene DeFriest Bétit
*The Survivors of the Clotilda by Hannah Durkin
*Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
*The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh
*Supreme Injustice by Paul Finkelman
*Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America by Rita Omokha
