Slavery in America

Mary V. Thompson. George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon. ISBN:  978-0-8139-4184-4.  Hardcover 520 pages. Copyright...

“Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia.” By Ric Murphy.  ISBN:  978-1-4671-4598-5. Copyright 2020. Softcover 208 pages. In 1619, a group of thi...

By Scott E. Casper. ISBN-13:978-0-8090-8415-9. Copyright 2008. Hardcover with 286 pages including notes, index, and 16 black and white illustrated ...

Carla Killough McCafferty. The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. ISBN:  978-0-8234-3697-2.  Hardcover 168 pages. Copyright 2018....

This book is a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Prize. The George Washington Prize is one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious liter...

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Kathleen Van Cleve. George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away. ISBN 978-1-5344-1617-8. ...

By Jeffrey E. Finegan, Sr., with illustrations by Preston Keith Hindmarch. ISBN 978-0-9852819-0-8. Copyright 2012. Hardcover with 25 pages includin...

Narrated by Solomon Northrup. ISBN-13 978-1-62686-236-4. Copyright 2014; originally published in 1853. Pliable leather-like cover with tooled title...

By Deborah Gray White. ISBN 978-0-393-31481-6. Copyright 1999, 1985. Softcover with 256 pages. Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism...

By Turk McCleskey. ISBN: 978-0-8139-3582-9. Copyright 2014. Hardcover with 324 pages including appendixes, notes, bibliography and index. The capti...

Growing up in Slavery – Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves edited by Yuval Taylor. ISBN 978-1-55652-635-0. Copyright 2005. Softcover 256...

By Jeffrey Ruggles. ISBN 0-88490-200-5. Copyright 2003 Hardcover with 232 pages including notes and index. The amazing life of Henry Box Brown, the...

By Laurie Halse Anderson. ISBN 978-1-4169-6145-1. Copyright 2010. Softcover with 312 pages including appendix; vocabulary words; reading group guid...

Nation Book Award Finalist. Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. ISBN 978-1-4169-0586-8. Copyright 2008. Softcover ...

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad. By Ellen Levine. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. ISBN 978-0-439-77733-9. Copyright 20...

Edited by Philip J. Schwarz. ISBN 0-931917. Copyright 2001. Softcover with 182 pages including 53 black and white illustrations.     Washington inh...

Edited by Belinda Hurmence. ISBN 0-89587-118-1. Copyright 1994. Softcover with 103 pages. Using the "Slave Narratives", the oral histories from the...

“The Quanders - Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy.” By Rohulamin Quander. ISBN: 978-1098076955. Copyright 2021. Hardcover 242 pages. ...

“Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth.” By Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, Fore...

“The Underground Railroad.” Colson Whitehead. ISBN: 978-0-345-80432-7. Copyright 2017. Softcover 336 pages.Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Boo...

This book is a finalist for the 2021 George Washington Prize. The George Washington Prize is one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious liter...