Books:

Fiction:

• Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains: Seeds of America.
• Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker.
• Brown, Linda Beatrice. Black Angels.
• Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Stealing Freedom.
• Haley, Alex. A Different Kind of Christmas.
• Humenence, Belinda. A Girl Called Boy.
• Lasky, Kathryn. True North: a Novel of the Underground Railroad.
• Lyons, Mary. Letters from a Slave Girl.
• Paterson, Katherine. JIP.
• Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn.
• Paulsen, Gary. Sarny.
• Rinaldi, Ann. The Letter Writer.
• Rinaldi, Ann. Wolf by the Ears.
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Non-fiction:

• Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom.
• Feelings, Tom. The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo.
• Haskins, Jim. Bound For America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World.
• Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery.
• Grant, R.G. Slavery: Real People and Their Stories of Enslavement
• Kuklin, Susan. Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery.
• Lester, Julius. To be a Slave.
• Osborne, Linda Barrett. Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction.
• Palmer, Colin A. The First Passage: Blacks in America 1520-1617.
• Remembering Slavery
• Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870.

Internet Resources:

African American Odyssey presented by the Library of Congress

A Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency is a project of the U.S. Civil War Center focusing on the depictions of slaves in Confederate currency.

The Atlantic Slave Trade & Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

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