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Cosner, Shaaron. The Underground Railroad. Watts, 1991. The story of smuggling slaves out of the American South to freedom; for high school readers

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an African Slave. Dover, 1995. Reprint of the classic, first published in 1845.

DuBois, W.E. John Brown. Random House, 2001. A new edition of Du Bois's 1909 biography of the martyred abolitionist.

Harrold, Stanley. The American Abolitionists. Longman, 2001. Provides chapters on the history and main personalities of the movement.

Jacobs, Donald M., ed. Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston. Indiana University Press, 1993. An informed study on the relationship between black abolitionists and white reformers in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lowance, Mason I., ed. Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader. Penguin, 2000. An anthology of primary documents that brings to life the urgency of the abolitionist crusade.

Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. St. Martin's, 1998. Award-winning account of America's foremost agitator and abolitionist.

Yellin, Jean Fagan, and John C. Van Horne, eds. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Cornell University Press, 1994. An excellent overview of women in the antislavery movement.

For younger readers

Altman, Linda Jacobs. Slavery and Abolition in American History. Enslow, 1999. For middle school and high school readers.

Bentley, Judith. Dear Friends: Thomas Garrett and William Still, Collaborators on the Underground Railroad. NAL, 1997. Based on correspondence between a black man and a white man, both active in the underground railroad; for readers in grade 7 and up.

Gorrell, Gina K. North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. Bantam, 1994. The involvement of Canadian Quakers in the abolitionist movement, for middle-school readers.

Lilley, Stephen R. Fighters Against American Slavery. Lucent, 1998. For middle school readers.

McCurdy, Michael, ed. Escape From Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. Knopf, 1994. An abridgement of Douglass's autobiography, for readers in grades 5 to 8.

Zeinert, Karen. The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition. Linnet, 1996, 1997. For readers in grade 7 and up.

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Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. The author's personal journey to discover his family's plantation and slave-holding past.

Berlin, Ira. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation. New Press, 1998. A chilling oral history of life before emancipation.

Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. Verso, 1998. Traces the development of slavery in the New World and the ideas and motivations that embraced it.

Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred Moss. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. Knopf, 1999. A classic history by a respected African American historian.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New American Library, 1987. Classic collection of narratives.

Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. University of North Carolina Press, 1995. A timeless, award-winning classic, originally published in 1969.

Mellon, James, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Reprint, Avon, 1988. 2002.

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution. Random House, 1989. Classic study of the economic aspects of slavery in the South; first published in 1956.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Extensive work that documents the 400-year history of the worldwide slave trade.

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