16 must-read american history books like Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter

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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…

If you liked the american history plot in Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

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3. Jane Austen at Home

By: Lucy Worsley

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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5. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction

6. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

By: Daniel Walker Howe

4.42

Format: 288 pages,

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7. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Car… read more

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8. The Best We Could Do

By: Thi Bui

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more

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9. 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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10. 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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11. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

By: None

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more

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12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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13. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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14. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • 19th century
  • nonfiction
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15. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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16. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
"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

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17. The Fountains of Silence

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. Madrid, 1957. Under the f… read more

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  • historical
"Mileage doesn’t make the man."

-Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

"Silence has a voice of its own."

-Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

"Look at you two. That- is the truth."

-Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

"The most dangerous adversary is the one you underestimate."

-Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

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18. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"

-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

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19. The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explo… read more

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"And though she'd always liked reading about faraway places, wasn't it also nice, she asked, to have somebody make you see all the beautiful things right under your nose?"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"Eavesdropping is not a virtue in a young lady," Mrs Crumley said. "Is it a virtue in an old lady?" Grace demanded, her temper flaring. "You seem to learn half your gossip that way."

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"The world was a different place once. People didn’t own forests when I was a girl. Forests simply were. We witches could drift from place to place, from wood to wood, weaving cottages from magic and …"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

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20. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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22. 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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • school
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • politics
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • family
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23. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

By: Tiya Miles

4.17

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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24. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

By: Sven Beckert

4.06

Format: 416 pages, ebook

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade

By: Alexandra J. Finley

4.45

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Alexandra J. Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship betw… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

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  • historical
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

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29. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California

By: Albert L. Hurtado

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history o… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • school
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30. Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

By: Chandra Manning

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

20 Best history books like Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter

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4.43

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Lucy Worsley

3.16

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Frederick Douglass

4.11

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Rebecca Stead

4.14

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Nicholas Day

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4.31

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