Non-Fiction: Slavery

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Paperback - January 1, 1999 by Walter Johnson

How The Word is Passed - June 1, 2021
by Clint Smith
who visits Whitney in Chapter 2

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century Paperback – February 18, 2019
By Tera W. Hunter

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery, & Resistance Paperback - October 20, 2020 by Stella Abasa Dadzie

Empire of Cotton: A Global History Paperback – November 10, 2015
by Sven Beckert

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Hardcover – Illustrated, May 8, 2018
by Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction), Alice Walker (Foreword)

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

Scars on the Land Hardcover - April 12, 2022 by David Silkenat

The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery Paperback - September 8, 2020 by Matt Sandler

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Hardback - November 16, 2021
By Nikole Hannah-Jones
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America Paperback – Illustrated, April 18, 2017
by Andrés Reséndez