10 Best Slavery Books
Goal: Find the best Slavery books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best slavery books" and study the top 4+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
10 Best Slavery Books
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Closer to Freedom
Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
by Stephanie M. H. Camp
Ebony and Ivy
Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
by Craig Steven Wilder
Many Thousands Gone
The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin
Nothing But Freedom
Emancipation and Its Legacy
by Eric Foner
Out of the House of Bondage
The Transformation of the Plantation Household
by Thavolia Glymph
Soul by Soul
Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E Baptist
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
Twelve Years A Slave
by Solomon Northup
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