Conservatives Can't Erase History - Historical and Scholarly Works on Slavery

It is important to understand and discuss slavery in the United States. We are still dealing with its effects, especially because Black people are far less wealthy than white people as a group. Here are some books you can read about slavery.

Slavery and Social Death (1982) – Orlando Patterson

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974) – Eugene D. Genovese

American Slavery, American Freedom (1975) – Edmund S. Morgan

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998) – Ira Berlin

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006) – David Brion Davis

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2014) – Edward E. Baptist

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (2016) – Andrés Reséndez

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021) – Clint Smith

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (2023) – Ilyon Woo

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (2023) – Rachel L. Swarns

Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World (2025) – Justin Marozzi

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