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Naomi Foner

Is This History Necessary?

The Coming of the Civil War

by Robert Goldston

Reconstruction: The Great Experiment

by Allen W. Trelease

The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885

by Dorothy Sterling

Great Gettin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey

by John Oliver Killens

Challenge to Become a Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

by Leah Lurie Heyn

Steal Away: Stories of the Runaway Slaves

edited by Abraham Chapman

To Be a Slave

by Julius Lester

Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History

by Julius Lester

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