Books

•  Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin 
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

Women Studies

•  Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie Camp 
• Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South By Deborah Gray White 

Narratives 

• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
• Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
• My Bondage My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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Soldiers

Links

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938