Books about African American Slavery

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Beloved
Toni Morrison

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass

Similar Novels 94%

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Similar Novels 90%

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley

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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead

Similar Novels 84%

Clotel, Or the President's Daughter
William Wells Brown

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano

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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Similar Novels 82%

The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois

Similar Novels 86%

The Known World
Edward P. Jones

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Our Nig
Harriet E. Wilson

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My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass

Similar Novels 68%

Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington

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Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates

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The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

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The Slave Community
John Wesley Blassingame

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The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts

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