8 Best historical fiction books like A Most Precious Gift by Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock

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A Most Precious Gift

By: Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock

4.40

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Dinah Devereaux, New Orleans-born slave and seamstress, suddenly finds herself relegated to a swelt…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in A Most Precious Gift by Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Always & Forever: A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance (The Plantation Series Book 1)

By: Gretchen Craig

4.27

Format: 224 pages,

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2. If The Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more

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3. A Child's Goodbye

By: Ali Mercer

4.21

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

All I remember is the screeching of brakes and the sound of tyres swerving on tarmac. The last thin… read more

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4. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

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  • historical fiction
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5. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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  • historical fiction
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6. The Road to Resilience: Velma’s Story (Velma's Story Book 2)

By: G.L. Gooding

4.42

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the life of author G. L. Gooding's mother, Velma Steele, The Road to Resilience continues … read more

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  • historical fiction
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7. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

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  • historical fiction
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8. Arkansas Summer

By: Anne Moose

4.51

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more

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  • historical fiction
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9. Lady of the Plantation

By: Adrian Heflin

4.51

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

'Lady of the Plantation' is the story of a mulatto girl surviving the brutality of slavery in Georg… read more

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10. Whispers of War

By: Naomi Finley

4.52

Format: None pages, ebook

Tensions sweep the country during the years preceding the American Civil War. Willow and Bowden Arm… read more

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11. Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.37

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A Slave’s Story is a fictionalized account of not just one slave’s life, but the tribulations and … read more

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12. Doris: The Struggles of a Former Slave (The Darkness Saga Book 2)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.46

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of A Slave’s Story comes the continuing saga of Darkness Knox. After she obtained … read more

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13. The Enslavement of Mary: The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.57

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of A Slave’s Story comes the fifth sequel, The Enslavement of Mary. Mary, the Nati… read more

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14. Luke's Justice : The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.62

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Luke's Justice is the fourth book in the A Slave's Story saga. The Knox family soon discovers that… read more

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15. Doris: Return to the Slave Farm (The Darkness Saga Book 3)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.51

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

After their home in Davenport, Iowa, is burned to the ground, Luke and Doris move to a home gifted … read more

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16. A Slave of the Shadows (The Livingston Legacy #1)

By: Naomi Finley

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In 1850 Charleston, South Carolina, brutality and cruelty simmer just under the genteel surface of … read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom

By: Judith C. Owens-Lalude

4.54

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom (Second Edition) is a riveting, antebellum, historical novel abou… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. White Oak River: A Story of Slavery's Secrets (White Oak series Book 1)

By: Ora Smith

4.50

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

After giving birth to a son with dominant African traits, a white Southern enslaver must decide if … read more

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19. Sisters

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.24

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

All her life, Winnie passed for White, using it to her advantage, and climbing the social ladder. W… read more

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20. If This Is Love: The Onset Of The Gilded Age (The Darlingtons Book 1)

By: Naomi Finley

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women,… read more

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21. Thicker Than Water

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.55

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

When her aunt who raised her dies, sixteen-year-old Alana goes to live with her uncle on another pl… read more

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22. But Have Not Love

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.10

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of BORN A COLORED GIRL and PAPPY MOSES’ PEANUT PLANTATION – By a twist of fate, a r… read more

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23. The Lilac Nurse

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.60

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Tommy, the Wilson slave, is injured as he daydreams about the beautiful woman he met at Sunday Serm… read more

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24. The Slave

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.64

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest release from the author of A Slave's Story, Return to the Slave Farm, and The Lilac Nu… read more

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25. Mahala: The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.45

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

the Darkness Saga is the prequel to A Slave's Story and the sixth book in that series. The latest… read more

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26. Wistful

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From best selling author of BORN A COLORED GIRL and BUT HAVE NOT LOVE. Only one letter separates th… read more

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27. Timothy: A White Slave Boy Story

By: Josiah Thomas

4.40

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA ROMANCE NOVEL. Born aboard a slave ship the son of a captive African woma… read more

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28. A Most Precious Gift

By: Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock

4.40

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Dinah Devereaux, New Orleans-born slave and seamstress, suddenly finds herself relegated to a swelt… read more

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29. Nat and Bliss: A Slave Story (The Darkness Saga)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.38

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

The second sequel to A Slave's Story, creates a tale of misery and love on the old Andrews' Farm. … read more

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30. Shadows of Slavery

By: Kate Juffs

4.24

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Bristol 1820. Helena Winters, the twenty year old daughter of a wealthy attorney, is set for a life… read more

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31. Jenkins' Plantation

By: Frances Marshall

3.40

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Dora was only three years old when her parents were sold to salve trade and shipped to America. Alo… read more

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14 must-read historical fiction books like Arkansas Summer by Anne Moose

Transform Your Habits

The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

Transform Your Habits

They Call Her Dirty Sally

Amy Matayo

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Promise ("The Promise" Saga Book 2)

Jean Hackensmith

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

Lonormi Manuel

4.47

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