If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
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Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential author…
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Th…
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
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