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• Harlem Shuffle

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  "It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Dancer

  a Novel

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  " Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harriet

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  "Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes."

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

  Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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  "The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gateway to Freedom

  The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

  Foner, Eric

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  "Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner relates the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom."

• 12 Years a Slave

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  "Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beloved

  a Novel

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019,

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  "It is the story - set in post-Civil War Ohio - of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad; a woman of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad

  Pettit, Eber,

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  "First published in 1879, Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad chronicles the perilous journeys and thrilling adventures of nearly two-dozen escaped slaves and the brave souls who helped them along the way."

• Race to Freedom

  the Story of the Underground Railroad

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  "This is the dramatic story of four slaves who escape from a cotton plantation in the South and travel along a clandestine network of escape routes, known as "the underground railroad", to freedom in Canada."

• Yonder

  a Novel

  Asim, Jabari, 1962-

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  In an elegant work of monumental imagination that will reorient how we think of the legacy of America's shameful past, Jabari Asim presents a beautiful, powerful, and elegiac novel that examines intimacy and longing in the quarters while asking a…Read moreRead more of this annotation