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Juneteenth, Emancipation, and "Because It's Time": A Resource Guide

Books on Emancipation and Black American History

Envisioning Emancipation by Deborah Willis; Barbara Krauthamer
Call Number: E185.2 .W68 2013
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope by Lucas E. Morel (Editor)
Call Number: PS3555.L625 I5356 2004
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope by Lucas E. Morel (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by John K. Young
Call Number: eBook
Life upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: E185 .G27 2011
The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation by Matthew Harper
Call Number: eBook
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Charles Johnson (Preface by)
Call Number: PS3555.L625 I5 1994
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates; Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: E185.61 .G253 2019
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy
Call Number: eBook
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Deborah Willis; Barbara Krauthamer
Call Number: E185.2 .W68 2013
Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation by Elizabeth Regosin
Call Number: E185.2 .R44 2002
Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation by Elizabeth Regosin
Call Number: eBook
Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation by Julie Roy Jeffrey
Call Number: eBook
Becoming Free in the Cotton South by Susan E. O'Donovan
Call Number: eBook
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner
Call Number: E668 .F655 2006
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy by Eric Foner
Call Number: HT1031 .F66 1983
The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher
Call Number: E185.2 .M43 1992
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom by Steven Hahn
Call Number: E449 .H15 2009
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom by Steven Hahn
Call Number: eBook
Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery by Mary Niall Mitchell
Call Number: eBook
Emancipation Without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line by Thomas E. Smith
Call Number: DT29 .S65 2018