115 Books in the Social Science / Slavery Category

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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World

In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
African American History in the United States of America (Volume Two): A Blueprint for Monetizing Reparations

African American History in the United States of America (Volume Two): A Blueprint for Monetizing Reparations
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
American Negro Slave Revolts (50th Anniversary Edition)

American Negro Slave Revolts (50th Anniversary Edition)
The Marshall Legacy in Black and White

The Marshall Legacy in Black and White
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery

The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
Afropessimism

Afropessimism
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home

Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Solving The Race Issue In America

Solving The Race Issue In America
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey

“Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey
The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada;

The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada;
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Revised Edition: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Revised Edition: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Frederick Douglass: A Biography

Frederick Douglass: A Biography
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Revised)

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Revised)
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876

The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House

The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House

Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black

Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States

The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
American Uprising

American Uprising
American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion That Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War

The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion That Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War
Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists & Transatlantic Reform

The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists & Transatlantic Reform
Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida

Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia

Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery

Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood From Slavery To Civil Rights (America And The Long 19Th Century)

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood From Slavery To Civil Rights (America And The Long 19Th Century)
House of Slaves & “Door of No Return”: Gold Coast

House of Slaves & “Door of No Return”: Gold Coast
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time.

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time.
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
Unburdened By Conscience: A Black People’s Collective Account Of America’s Ante-Bellum South And The Aftermath

Unburdened By Conscience: A Black People’s Collective Account Of America’s Ante-Bellum South And The Aftermath
Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story

Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family

The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne

Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials: A Mystic Chord Resonates Today

The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials: A Mystic Chord Resonates Today
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation

Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
Lincoln On Race And Slavery

Lincoln On Race And Slavery
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade

The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Sugar Of The Crop: My Journey To Find The Children Of Slaves

Sugar Of The Crop: My Journey To Find The Children Of Slaves
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History

Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Daddy Sharpe: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave Written by Himself, 1832

Daddy Sharpe: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave Written by Himself, 1832
Big Enough To Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery And Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

Big Enough To Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery And Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream

Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
The Black Holocaust For Beginners

The Black Holocaust For Beginners
The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War

The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade

The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man

Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York

The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York
Boston’s Abolitionists

Boston’s Abolitionists
New Studies in the History of American Slavery

New Studies in the History of American Slavery
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America

The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
Slavery in New York

Slavery in New York
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)

In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)
North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones

North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech

The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Stroud’s Slave Laws

Stroud’s Slave Laws
The Development of Creole Society, 1770-1820

The Development of Creole Society, 1770-1820
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans

The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans
Slavery and the Making of America

Slavery and the Making of America
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Revised)

Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Revised)
Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology

Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions)
Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony
The Atlantic Sound

The Atlantic Sound
Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown (Revised)

Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown (Revised)
African Diaspora

African Diaspora
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Revised)

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Revised)
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream

Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
Spirit Dive: An African-American’s Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past (Pbk)

Spirit Dive: An African-American’s Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past (Pbk)
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Rooted in the Chants of Slaves, Blacks in the Humanities, 1985-1997: A Selected Annotated Bibliography

Rooted in the Chants of Slaves, Blacks in the Humanities, 1985-1997: A Selected Annotated Bibliography
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past

The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past
David Walker’s Appeal

David Walker’s Appeal
David Walker’s Appeal

David Walker’s Appeal
Capitalism And Slavery

Capitalism And Slavery
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 1638-1870 (Revised)

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 1638-1870 (Revised)
Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad

Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad
Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad