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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.
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
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
*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
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
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
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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