Books like Heart of a Slave by Verna Cyril

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.

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.

Douglas A. Blackmon exposes a hidden chapter of American history—an "Age of Neoslavery" that subjected African Americans to forced labor and debt slavery from the late 19th century through the 1940s.

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.

DESERT CAPTIVE Alluring Bellina D 'Rosallini had been fleeing through the war-torn streets of Constantinople when the dark-eyed horseman, sword flashing at his side, had reared out of nowhere and pulled her onto his powerful stallion. Now, as she lay captive in his tent, fingers of fear traced her spine fear... and something more. For as she watched the muscles rippling across his bronzed chest and saw the desire smouldering in his tiger eyes, she knew she was completely at his mercy... Surek wondered what had possessed him to pluck this foreign child-woman from the thick of the fighting. But now that she was in his possession, she would have to learn to do as she was bid. He was Captain of his army, and master of his women. No woman had yet complained of this arrangement, and he did not think the little Venetian beauty would either--not once he had introduced her to the exquisite pleasures of a man 's caresses and the searing ecstasy of passion on the desert's burning sands...

Chronologically compiled recollections of enslaved and former slaves, spanning the voyage from Africa to the Civil War and into the early twentieth century, offering firsthand perspectives on the conditions and lives of African Americans in bondage.