Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser. Book 1)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality a…
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1. Celia, A Slave
By: Melton A. McLaurin
3.52
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
By: Karen L. Cox
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and to… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
3. 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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- race
- history
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
4. The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
By: Anne Rice
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of … read more
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5. More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas
By: David Barry Gaspar , None
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Gender was a decisive force in slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave … read more
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6. The Civil War: A Concise History
By: Louis P. Masur
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still ca… read more
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7. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
8. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- gender
- nonfiction
- sexuality
9. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
10. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
11. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds
4.48
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America'…"-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public school…"-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
12. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
13. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more
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"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
14. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
15. Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
By: Nikki M. Taylor
4.47
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ult… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
By: Kerri K. Greenidge
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for re… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
17. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Sophie White
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
18. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
By: Jamison Shea
3.72
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more
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"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
19. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
By: Sam Wineburg
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it invites a slide into intellectual torpor. History as truth, issued from the left or the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to stamp out …"-Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
20. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.63
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those wh… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
21. To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
By: Carole Emberton
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the d… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. 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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- race
- history
- nonfiction
23. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
By: Joan DeJean
3.60
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found po… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
24. Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
By: Avgi Saketopoulou
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Radical alternatives to consent and trauma. Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- gender and sexuality
25. They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.03
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bod… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
26. Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South
By: Caroline Grego
4.50
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry… read more
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- american history
- history
27. Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (Civil War America)
By: Angela Esco Elder
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers… read more
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- history
28. Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (Gender and Slavery Ser. Book 1)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality a… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- theory
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- social justice
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29. Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
By: Warren Eugene Milteer
4.23
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association Winner of the 2022 Raga… read more
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