Slave Narrative Books about Black Slavery

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62 books

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Beloved
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 88%

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead

Similar Novels 84%

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

Similar Novels 92%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs

Similar Novels 82%

The Known World
Edward P. Jones

Similar Novels 74%

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley

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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Steven Hahn

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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Similar Novels 82%

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Similar Novels 86%

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

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Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates

Similar Novels 81%

Clotel, Or the President's Daughter
William Wells Brown

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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

Similar Novels 90%

The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

Similar Novels 94%

Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington

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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
David Brion Davis

Similar Novels 92%

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
Ann Rinaldi

Similar Novels 88%

The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts

Similar Novels 90%

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Ernest J. Gaines

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Our Nig
Harriet E. Wilson

Similar Novels 90%

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