Beloved
1987★ 9.4
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
1845★ 7.4
Black Reconstruction in America
1935★ 7.0
The Black Jacobins
1938★ 7.0
Twelve Years a Slave
1853★ 6.9
American Slavery, American Freedom
1975★ 6.8
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1861★ 6.8
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852★ 6.7
The Known World
2003★ 6.7
Gone with the Wind
1936★ 6.7
Up From Slavery
1901★ 6.5
Kindred
1979★ 6.4
The Kingdom of This World
1949★ 6.2
Roll, Jordan, Roll
1974★ 6.2
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
1552★ 6.1
The Peculiar Institution
1956★ 5.9