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Slavery/Emancipation

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)

Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (2016)

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)

The Works of Steven Hahn

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey (2003)

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

Slaves and Englishmen, by Michael Guasco (2014)

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil’s Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney (2014)

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit, by Kristen Block (2012)

More to Read on Urban Slavery

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, by Barbara Krauthamer (2013)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End by Scott W. Berg (2012)

Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia by João José Reis (1993)

Honorable Mention of 2013 Essay Contest: Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg by Rod Gragg (2000)

The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath

The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen (2008)

From Baseball to Politics

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US

Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction

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