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    • By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002 ratings
    • A startling and eye-opening look into America's first family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 837 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • An American Controversy
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

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    • A History of Abolition
    • By: Manisha Sinha
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image....

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    • Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war....

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    • From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
    • By: Geoffrey Plank
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....

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    • A Captivating Guide to African American History and the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Two manuscripts in one book: African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the United States; and Haitian Revolution....

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    • Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Larry Herron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders....

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    • By: William Cooper Nell
    • Narrated by: Melissa Summers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Published in 1855, this history book by William Cooper Nell has an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It is considered by some to be the first history book by and about African Americans....

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    • America's Ancient Pasts
    • By: Daniel K. Richter
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, who created a unique place called the United States. But the US has a much deeper history than is apparent....

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    • The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
    • By: Simon Schama
    • Narrated by: Simon Schama
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America's birth....

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Philippe Girard
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • By: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the 20th century's most iconic African American leaders....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
    • By: David Brion Davis
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism....

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    • Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
    • By: Andrew Delbanco
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War....

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    • A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
    • By: Joyce Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Kellie Fitzgerald
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The riveting biography of a Massachusetts slave boy who fought in the Revolutionary War....

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