Resistance, Escape, and the Abolition Movement

American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt Paperback – January 17, 2012
by Daniel Rasmussen

The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War Hardcover – February 3, 2026
by Jamie Holmes (Author)

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Paperback – October 17, 1997 (New Edition 2024)
by Nell Irvin Painter (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)

Slave No More: Self-Liberation Before Abolitionism in the Americas Paperback – March 11, 2019
by Aline Helg (Author), Lara Vergnaud (Translator)

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War Hardcover – February 9, 2024
by Edda L. Fields-Black (Author)

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

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Significations) Paperback – June 18, 2024
by Tiya Miles (Author), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Series Editor)

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback – October 23, 1989
by C.L.R. James (Author), David Scott Scott (Introduction)

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts paperback – June 1, 2021 by Rebecca Hall (Author) and Hugo Martinez (Illustrator)

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family Hardcover – November 8, 2022
by Kerri K. Greenidge

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War Paperback – November 10, 2020
by Alice L Baumgartner (Author)