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  • The African Diaspora: Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity, Culture and Religion under Slavery, Paul E. Lovejoy

  • Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Manu Herbstein

  • American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, Theodore Dwight Weld

  • Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity and Community,
    Eviator Zerubavel

  • Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,
    David Eltis and David Richardson

  • Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, Jane Landers

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade, Herbert S. Klein

  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last Cargo, Zora Neale Hurston

  • Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation, Nicholas Guyatt

  • Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, Martha S. Jones

  • The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Paul Gilroy

  • Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865, Daniel P. Mannix

  • Black Florida, Jane Landers

  • Black Imagination and the Middle Passage, “The Slave Ship Dance,” Genevieve Fabre

  • Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion, Peter H. Wood

  • The Black Population in Mexico, Aguirre Beltran

  • Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-century New England, William Dillon Piersen

  • The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

  • Citizens Creek, Lalita Tademy

  • The Coming: A Novel, Daniel Black

  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, Gerald Horne

  • Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope, Jonathan M. Bryant

  • Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860, Joanne Pope Melish

  • The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade, William St Clair

  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, Sylviane A. Diouf

  • Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder

  • A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England, Choices for the 21 Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

  • Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea, Marcus Rediker

  • Exchanging Our Country Masks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South, Michael Gomez

  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist

  • Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, Afua Cooper

  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi

  • How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith, June 2021

  • The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic: 1500-2000, edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Karen Racine

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs

  • The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harris

  • The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory,
    Anne Farrow

  • Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route,
    Saidiya Hartman

  • The Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo, Tom Feelings

  • Motives of Honor, Pleasure and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763, Lorena Walsh

  • Negro President, Gary Wills

  • Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of the Runaway Slave Ona Judge, Erica Armstrong Dunbar

  • New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, Wendy Warren

  • The Negro in Colonial New England, Lorenzo Green

  • The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

  • Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, Thavolia Glymph

  • A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Howard Zinn

  • Ports of the Slave Trade (Bights of Benin and Biafra), Papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, June 1998

  • The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1710-1823,
    David Brian Davis

  • Red River, Lalita Tademy

  • Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data, Henry B. Lovejoy et. al

  • Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transitional ad Comparative History, Ana Lucia Araujo

  • Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-3, Steven L. Danver

  • Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to America, Stephanie E. Smallwood

  • Sex and Racism in America, Calvin C. Hernton

  • Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery, Ana Lucia Araujo

  • Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution, Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen

  • The Slave Ship: A Human History, Marcus Rediker

  • The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of Africatown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors, Natalie S. Robertson

  • Slave Voices: The Sounds of Freedom, edited by Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene Shephard (U.W.I.), UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network

  • Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past, Ana Lucia Araujo

  • Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, Sowande’ M. Mustakeem

  • Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A. Blackman

  • Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, Sylviane A. Diouf

  • Slavery’s Trail of Tears: Retracing America’s Forgotten Migration – The Journey of a Million African-Americans from the Tobacco to the Cotton South, Edward Ball

  • Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, Walter Johnson

  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi

  • Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyrany of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History,
    James W. Loewen

  • The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

  • The Long Middle Passage: The Enslavement of Africans and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1640-1808, Nicholas Radburn

  • They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence I Ancient America, Ivan Van Sertima

  • They Were Good Soldiers: African Americas Serving I the Continental Army, 1775-1783, John U. Rees

  • There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America,
    Vincent Harding

  • Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era, Arthur Pierre Middleton

  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

  • Transatlantic Transformations: The Origins and Identities of Africans in the Americas, Paul E. Lovejoy

  • Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins

  • Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean, Valerie Loichot

  • White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America,
    Nancy Isenberg

  • The World They Made Together: Black ad White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Mechal Sobel

Young People’s Books

There is a website that we recommend you visit that has books for young people as well as information on teaching social justice and civil rights history: socialjusticebooks.org. It is a Teaching for Change Project that covers a broad spectrum of issues.

  • The Day You Begin, Jacqueline Woodson

  • An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Debbie Reese

  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything America History Textbooks Get Wrong (Yong Readers Edition), James W. Loewen

  • Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge: Young Readers Edition, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Kathleen VanCleve

  • Never Forgotten, Patricia C. McKissack, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (children’s book)

  • Stamped Racism: Antiracism and You, Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

  • This Place: 150 Years Retold, Katen Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu

  • The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition 1898-1945

  • We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, Jabari Asim

  • A Young People’s History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror, Howard Zinn, Rebecca Stefoff

Materials
for Teachers

  • Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark: Challenging Dominant Narratives in K-12 Curriculum,
    Alison Schmitke, Lelani Sabzahain, Jeff Edmundson

  • Rethinking Ethnic Studies, Edited by Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au

  • The 1619 Project Curriculum

  • Teaching with Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service)

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