Slavery Through Voices
Diverse perspectives on slavery through powerful books spanning memoir, fiction, and history. From frontline accounts to reflective histories. In collaboration with heathersdesk.
created by Pipsy
last updated September, 2025
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Great list! I'd also add The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James This is a very comprehensive & hard hitting history book of the slave revolt that lead to the independence of Haiti!
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I love this list a lot! My list is very Africa heavy, which I have no complaints about, but I want to make sure it's balanced with all the other nations in the Global South. This will give many things I feel bad about not including a place to go in a very targeted, specific way.
I'd like to transfer some things from my list to yours, if you don't mind. There are also a bunch of slave narratives on Project Gutenberg I'm going to port in from Goodreads. Will pass you a list!
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Britain's Slave Empire by James Walvin, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Searching for My Slave Roots by Malik al Nasir
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Anecdotes and Memoirs of William Boen, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, The Life of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne, Narrative of Henry Box Brown, The New Man by Henry Clay Bruce, Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes, Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver by Zora Neale Hurston, Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley, The History of Mary Prince
I've added a few more as well!
Got another one for you from my Global South list I missed.
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
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