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First publish date: 1998
Authors: Rayda Jacobs
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📘 Beloved
 by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer‑winning work follows Sethe, an escaped slave living in post‑Civil War Ohio, as she confronts the traumatic past that rises again in the form of a mysterious child named Beloved.

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The Underground Railroad by 6513734|Colson Whitehead book cover

📘 The Underground Railroad
 by Colson Whitehead

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.

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Roots by 6506170|Alex Haley book cover

📘 Roots
 by Alex Haley

Alex Haley’s Pulitzer‑winning saga follows Kunta Kinte from his capture in Africa through centuries of slavery and generations of his descendants, revealing the deep roots of African‑American history.

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📘 Incidents in the life of a slave girl
 by Harriet A. Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical narrative recounts her escape from slavery in North Carolina, her concealment in a hidden garret for seven years, and her eventual reunion with her children in the North.

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The Slave Dancer (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction) by 7038819|Paula Fox book cover

📘 The Slave Dancer (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction)
 by Paula Fox

A young boy becomes a slave on a transatlantic slave ship, forced to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

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Sea of Poppies by 577760|Amitav Ghosh book cover

📘 Sea of Poppies
 by Amitav Ghosh

In the years leading to the Opium Wars, the slave ship Ibis carries a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, convicts, and passengers—including a bankrupt raja, a widowed village woman, a mulatto American, and an evangelical opium trader—who bond as ship-brothers on a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean.

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The Book of Negroes by 6739017|Lawrence Hill book cover

📘 The Book of Negroes
 by Lawrence Hill

Follow Aminata Diallo, a child sold into slavery in South Carolina, as she escapes to Canada after the Revolutionary War and seeks a new life of freedom.

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📘 The book of night women
 by Marlon James

A vivid portrait of life on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the turn of the nineteenth century, following Lilith, a young enslaved woman whose emerging powers draw her into a secret rebel faction.

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The house girl by 11548124|Tara Conklin book cover

📘 The house girl
 by Tara Conklin

A story of ambition, love, and justice in New York City, following Lina Sparrow as she fights for a historic lawsuit against her corporate law firm.

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Dessa Rose by 6651592|Sherley Anne Williams book cover

📘 Dessa Rose
 by Sherley Anne Williams

In "Dessa Rose" two women—a black slave in Kentucky and a white farmer in North Carolina—meet in the 1830s and form an uneasy alliance to fight slavery and prejudice.

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A chain of voices by 6695083|André Philippus Brink book cover

📘 A chain of voices
 by André Philippus Brink

A striking South African novel set on a Cape Colony farm in the early 1800s, where a slave rebellion led by Galant culminates in violence and death, exposing generations of family conflict and the brutal reality of slavery.

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