Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
By: Amy Murrell Taylor
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei…
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1. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Brittney Cooper , None
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and … read more
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2. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
By: Charles B. Dew
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more
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3. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
By: Judy Yung
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of … read more
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4. 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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"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
5. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Kirk Savage
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their … read more
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6. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
By: Steven Hahn
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed … read more
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7. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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8. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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9. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
By: None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. … read more
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10. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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11. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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12. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
By: James M. McPherson
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why did the conventional wisdom - that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as wa… read more
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13. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
By: James Oakes
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and t… read more
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14. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more
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15. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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16. Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
By: Jeanne Theoharis , None , None
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring l… read more
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17. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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18. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
19. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
By: Megan Kate Nelson
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more
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20. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles o… read more
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21. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
By: Amy Murrell Taylor
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more
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22. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah McNamara
4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro… read more
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23. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South … read more
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24. Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Lane Windham
4.07
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramaticall… read more
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25. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in Ameri… read more
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26. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
2018 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians… read more
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27. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
By: Caroline E. Janney
4.08
Format: 451 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shapi… read more
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28. Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
By: Stacey L. Smith
3.82
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusivel… read more
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29. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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30. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
By: Tiya Miles
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more
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31. Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement
By: Carol Faulkner
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, … read more
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