Non-Fiction

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire Paperback – June 6, 2017
by Karl Jacoby

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation Paperback – December 26, 2017
by Daina Ramey Berry

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Paperback – Abridged, January 6, 2015
by Eric Foner

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Mass Market Paperback – April 21, 2009
by Maya Angelou (Author), Oprah Winfrey (Foreword)

Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice Paperback – April 22, 1997
by David M. Oshinsky

The Blood of Emmett Till Paperback – December 5, 2017
by Timothy B. Tyson

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Reprint Edition
by Douglas A. Blackmon

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
by Edward E. Baptist

Missouri Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 1st Edition
by Federal Writers' Project

The Fire Next Time Paperback – December 1, 1992
by James Baldwin

Twelve Years a Slave (Dover Thrift Editions) Paperback – March 19, 2014
by Solomon Northup

Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea Hardcover – May 13, 2025
by Marcus Rediker (Author)