Staff Recommendations

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking Hardcover - November 5, 2019 by Toni Tipton-Martin (Author) & Jerrelle Guy (Photographer)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
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Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Revised Edition
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In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Hardcover – January 7, 2025
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James: A Novel Hardcover – March 19, 2024
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Hardcover – September 19, 2023
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The American Daughters: A Novel Hardcover – February 27, 2024
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Black Creole Chronicles Paperback – May 23, 2023
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We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy Hardcover – April 6, 2021
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