Books like 'Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation'
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The Last Long Night by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCan they survive the Last, Long Night of the Civil War?The power of the Union army brings the South to its knees in surrender, but not until a year of intense pain and violence creates a chasm that may be impossible for the country to bridge. Carrie struggles to hold on to hope as the world caves in around her, hanging on to the promise she’s been given... -
![Dark Chaos by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye]()
Dark Chaos by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDark Chaos is the 4th book in the Bregden Chronicles - the sweeping historical saga of America, beginning in 1860. As the 3rd year of the American Civil War begins, Carrie Cromwell, her heart filled with joy, marries the man of her dreams, the handsome Lieutenant Robert Borden. But a cloud threatens to wipe out the bride's new happiness... -
![Ever My Love by Gretchen Craig]()
Ever My Love by Gretchen Craig
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of Civil War, the daughter of Southern planters finds her loyalties tested in a magnificent saga of family pride and forbidden love...Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad... -
![Carolina Rain by Nancy B. Brewer]()
Carolina Rain by Nancy B. Brewer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOpen the page of Carolina Rain and step on the streets of an era gone by. Carolina Rain is not just a read, but an experience. You will smell the magnolia trees, feel the sun on your face and taste the bittersweet tears of a beautiful young girl coming of age at the dawning of the Civil War. Theodosia Elizabeth Sanders, "Lizzie" was born October 6, 1842... -
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![Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud]()
Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis story, based on historical fact recreates the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, who bore him seven children. Visited by a census-taker in 1831, 60-year-old Sally is encouraged to recount her past... -
![A Long Way from Home by Connie Briscoe]()
A Long Way from Home by Connie Briscoe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Connie Briscoe's third novel, the connotations of home are anything but heartwarming. For an enslaved mother, daughter, and grandmother, Montpelier plantation in Virginia is a living hell- and the proprietor, at least initially, is none other than President James Madison... -
![The Stockwell Letters by Jacqueline Friedland]()
The Stockwell Letters by Jacqueline Friedland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story... -
![The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang]()
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA novel rooted in the remarkable, but little-known, true history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line.When escaped slave, Joe Bell, collapses in her father’s barn, Mary Willis must ward off Confederate guerillas and spies, Joe’s vengeful owner, and even her own brother to help the handsome fugitive cross to freedom...Categorized as:
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![Soul Catcher by Michael C. White]()
Soul Catcher by Michael C. White
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAugustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears the scars, inside and out, of a life of servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is fueled by a passion and determination only a mother could feel, and she would rather die than let anyone drag her back to hell... -
![The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly]()
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties... -
![Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi, Martin C. Brown]()
Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi, Martin C. Brown
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry...Categorized as:
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![Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland, Kristen Potter]()
Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland, Kristen Potter
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAbigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her... -
![Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O'Connor]()
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O'Connor
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms.Novels such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved, The Known World by Edward P... -
![Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain]()
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 21 ratings#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire...Categorized as:
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![The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote]()
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat... -
![Grant by Ron Chernow]()
Grant by Ron Chernow
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsUlysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age...Categorized as:
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![The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Library Edition by Shelby Foote, Grover Gardner]()
The Civil War: A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Library Edition by Shelby Foote, Grover Gardner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlready recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American, this is a narrative of over a million and a half words which recreates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: The Civil War... -
![The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote]()
The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"This, then, is narrative history, a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time."The Washington Post Book World "Gettysburg.. -
![Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer]()
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba... -
![And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham]()
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of AmericaA president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of... -
![Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.]()
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTraces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey and slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights movement, to life in the 1990s. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo... -
![Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer]()
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life—and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.” — Patrick Radden Keefe “[A] searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account...Categorized as:
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![Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule]()
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S... -
![Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois]()
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time... -
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![Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote]()
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHistorian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume narrative of the Civil War... -
![What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass]()
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiographer who spearheaded the American abolitionist movement in the mid-nineteenth century... -
![Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke]()
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOriginally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York... -
![A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr., Bill Weideman]()
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White Jr., Bill Weideman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this important new biography, Ronald C. White, Jr. offers a fresh and fascinating definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity—what today’s commentators are calling “authenticity”—whose internal moral compass is the key to understanding his life...Categorized as:
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![How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhile the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit...Categorized as:
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![Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg]()
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOriginally published in six volumes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was called “the greatest historical biography of our generation.” Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln...Categorized as:
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