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Monticello Plantation and The Whitney Plantation
- Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave Ona Judge
o Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge (Young Readers Edition)
- Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Henry Louis Gates, ed., Six Women’s Slave Narratives
- Melton McLaurin, Celia, A Slave: A True Story
- Deidre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- Roger Wilkins, Jefferson’s Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
- Vincent Harding, There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
- Nicole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
- Sadeqa Johnson, Yellow Wife: A Novel
Sankofa (film), Haile Gerima
Angola Prison
- Albert Woodfox, Solitary: A Biography
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
- David Oshinsky, Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
- Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- Talitha LeFlouria, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
13th (documentary)
Blandford Cemetery
- Char McCargo Bah, Alexandria’s Freedmen’s Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom
- Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African American Woman’s Civil War Memoir
Galveston Island
- Margaret Walker Alexander, Jubilee
- Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
New York City
- Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract
- Leslie Alexander, African or America? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City 1784-1861
- Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
- Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
- Rebecca Hall, WAKE: The Hidden History of Women Led Slave Revolts
- Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
- Secrets of the Dead: The Woman in the Iron Coffin (documentary)
Goree Island
· Mueni wa Muiu, “ ‘Civilization on Trail’: The Colonial and Postcolonial State in Africa,” in Journal of Third World Studies, V25, No 1