If you liked the fiction plot in Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper , here is a list of 12 books like this:
1. Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)
By: Mark Twain
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant son's life, excha… read more
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- classics
- american
- school
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
"As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)
"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)
"A kindly courtesy does at least save one’s feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome."-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)
2. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- classics
- american
- school
- fiction
- african american
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
3. The Country of the Pointed Firs
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more
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- classics
- american
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Our Nig
By: Harriet E. Wilson , P. Gabrielle Foreman , Reginald Pitts
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of t… read more
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- classics
- school
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
5. Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
By: William Wells Brown , M. Giulia Fabi
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
First published in December 1853, Clotelwas written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jeffer… read more
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- classics
- school
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
6. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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- classics
- school
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted
By: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
3.50
Format: 31 pages,
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- classics
- american
- school
- 19th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- classics
- african american
- school
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
9. Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura
By: None , Michael J. Drexler , Lenora Sansay
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (H… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
- historical fiction
10. Home to Harlem
By: Claude McKay , Wayne F. Cooper
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different y… read more
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- classics
- american
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
11. Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection
By: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Of One Bloodis the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be … read more
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- classics
- african american
- fiction
12. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
By: Andre Dubus III , James Alan McPherson , Breece D'J Pancake
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the… read more
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- american
- fiction
13. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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14. Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
By: Jessie Redmon Fauset
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and… read more
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15. Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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16. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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17. The Rise of Silas Lapham
By: William Dean Howells , Kermit Vanderbilt
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society… read more
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18. The School for Scandal
By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upp… read more
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19. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
By: Richard Yarborough , Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning anoth… read more
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20. The Blithedale Romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Classic novel set in 19th-century New England, and drawing on the au… read more
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21. The Beetle
By: Richard Marsh
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The Beetle' (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with … read more
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22. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
By: Arna Bontemps , James Weldon Johnson
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more… read more
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23. The Coquette
By: Cathy N. Davidson , Hannah Webster Foster
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poe… read more
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24. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
By: Ida B. Wells-Barnett , None , None
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging … read more
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25. A Hazard of New Fortunes
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , William Dean Howells , None , None
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-t… read more
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26. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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27. Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
By: Fanny Fern , Susan Belasco
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experi… read more
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28. The Marrow of Tradition
By: Charles W. Chesnutt
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addresse… read more
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29. Burning Bright
By: Ron Rash
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" … read more
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30. Oral History
By: Lee Smith
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape reco… read more
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31. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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- african american
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing