Books like The weeping time by Anne C. Bailey

Cora, a woman enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, partners with a new slave named Caesar to flee the South. Their daring escape follows a literal underground network of tunnels that mirrors the perilous journey of countless fugitive slaves toward freedom.

A chilling memoir detailing Solomon Northup's harrowing experience as a captive on a Louisiana plantation for twelve years, from 1841 to 1853.

The true story of Mary, the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, smuggled from Africa aboard the doomed Clotilda to Alabama.

An extraordinary memoir by John McCline, a former slave from Tennessee's Clover Bottoms, recounting his experiences as a soldier during the Civil War and the hardships he faced as a child in bondage.

Complicity exposes the hidden North as a profit‑driven center of slavery, detailing the Triangle Trade, northern plantations, and key figures who benefited far from the Mason‑Dixon line.

Though the English did not begin their colonization of the New World with the intention of enslaving anyone, by the end of the seventeenth century chattel slavery existed in each of England’s American colonies. Why? And why did the English enslave West Africans rather than native Americans or Europeans? Historians have usually stressed either racial ideology or determining economic and demographic factors, but Betty Wood suggests that a more complex rationale was at work. In this important new analysis, Wood begins by exploring the meanings of freedom and bondage in sixteenth-century English thought and the ideas that men and women of Tudor England had about Africans and native Americans. She studies their prejudices against non-Christians, their responses to models of slavery in the Spanish and French colonies, and their assessment of their own labor shortages, and in the light of these various factors interprets the decision of the English to resort to slave labor in the colonies. She then follows the spread of slavery through the seventeenth century, from the Caribbean and the Carolinas to Virginia tobacco country and finally among the Puritans and Quakers farther north. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of the United States gives us thought-provoking insights into the role of the English in the development of the “peculiar institution” of slavery. - From the dust jacket.

A quiet, powerful tale of Henry Townsend, a former slave who rises to become a plantation owner in antebellum Virginia, and the turbulent world of his estate and the wider South as slavery persists and challenges surface.

Awesome. Excellent read. Could not put it down.

Reconstruction of the lives of 110 enslaved Africans from Benin and Nigeria who arrived in Alabama's Clotilda in 1860, their journey through the slave trade, and their post‑emancipation community known as African Town.