Louisiana Interest

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States Paperback – October 1, 2002
by Zora Neale Hurston

Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) Paperback – January 18, 2018
by Rashauna Johnson

The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860 Paperback – February 1, 2007
by Richard Follett

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations (Real Voices, Real History) Paperback – June 3, 2014
by Lynette Ater Tanner

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America Hardcover – September 30, 2025
by Sonja Cherry-Paul (Adapter), Clint Smith (Author)

The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love Hardcover – Illustrated, March 4, 2019
by Bryan Wagner (Author)

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 Paperback – May 1, 2001
by John C. Rodrigue (Author)

We Know This Place Paperback – April 28, 2022
by Sunni Patterson (Author)

Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) Paperback – August 1, 2021
by Sophie White (Author)

The American Daughters: A Novel Hardcover – February 27, 2024
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Author)

Native Guard: Poems Paperback – April 3, 2007
by Natasha Trethewey (Author)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
by LeeAnna Keith (Author)