Fiction
Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker.
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. 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.
Kuklin, Susan. Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery.
Lester, Julius. To be a Slave.
Palmer, Colin A. The First Passage: Blacks in America 1520-1617.
Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870.
Web Sites
African American Odyssey presented by the Library of Congress
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.
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Updated 7/9/01 by Lisa Pritchard