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Please note: most of these books contain textual or artistic representations of violence which may be troubling for young readers; parents, guardians and educators should review the books and use their own discretion in assigning these readings. 

Picture books which contain explicit references to violence are preceded by an asterisk.

For kids under 10:

*If You Lived When There Was Slavery In America

*Chasing Freedom

Before She Was Harriet

Moses

Only Passing Through

When Harriet Met Sojourner

Henry’s Freedom Box

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Show Way

Follow the Drinking Gourd

*Let The Truth Be Told

*Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence

Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (with Audio Recording)

*Never Forgotten

Love Twelve Miles Long
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The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

For Kids 10-13:

Meet Addy: An American Girl

Meet Kaya: An American Girl

Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway

Elijah of Buxton

Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children

Amos Fortune: Free Man

Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War


Kidnapped Prince The Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Old African


Chains


Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom


How I Became a Ghost


The Birchbark House


In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

For Teens 14 and up:

Copper Sun

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley

Surrender Tree El Arbol de la Rendicion Poems of Cubas Struggle for Freedom

Beloved

47

The Black History of the White House

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

For Adults:

Twelve Years a Slave

Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880

Ar'n't I A Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

Stamped From the Beginning

A People's History of the United States

Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America


​The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Lies My Teacher Told Me and How American History Can be Used as a Weapon
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The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

​The Warmth of Other Suns

Women, Race, & Class

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:An Indian History of the American West

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience 

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