REVIEW: A Virginia Slaveowner Freed His Slaves. The Rest of the Story is Complicated.
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It was an impossibly long road from not being enslaved to achieving full freedom
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5 HOT BOOKS: True Stories about Meth and Fentanyl, Having a Paralyzed Face, and More
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And Tracing the Impact of Slavery on Capitalism in America and Europe
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Exploring Slavery's Legacy, a Journalist Looks Back on His Life, and More
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And How the Space Race of the 1960s was Driven by Cold War Politics
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Hockey Parents, Lincoln and the End of American Slavery, and More
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And an Explorer Who Bravely Battled Frozen Seas, Frigid Temperatures, and Polar Bear Attacks
Read MoreREVIEW: From a Barbados Sugar Plantation to Freedom, or Something Like It
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A Man Booker Prize Shortlist Novel Wrestles with the Agonies of Slavery
Read MoreREAD THIS: A Haunting Collection of Eyewitness Accounts of American Slavery
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First-Hand Recollections of the Middle Passage, Enslavement, Rebellion, and Escape
Read MoreESSAY: Notes from the Underground (Railroad): Two Novelists Take on Slavery
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One Definitive Work on the Subject, One that is More Problematic
Read MoreREVIEW: Colson Whitehead Brilliantly Reimagines the Underground Railroad
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A Novel that Explores Slavery and the Search for Freedom
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: An Oral History of Hollywood's Top Agency, a Black Man Who Killed to Not Become a Slave, and More
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And a Journalist's Memoir of her Partner's Drowning Death
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