African American Civil War

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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
    • By: Douglas A. Blackmon
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history.....

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    • Mississippi's Longest Civil War
    • By: Victoria E. Bynum
    • Narrated by: Mahershala Ali
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Actor Mahershala Ali performs the gripping tale of an armed band of Confederate deserters and slaves living in a mixed-race community who rose up against the Confederate Cavalry in 1863....

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    • The Story of the Last Slave
    • By: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Deborah G. Plant, Robin Miles
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last 'Black Cargo' ship to arrive in the United States....

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    • By: Tracy K. Smith
    • Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting....

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    • Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
    • By: Edward E Baptist
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy....

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    • By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    • Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In 1850s Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa House is an idyllic retreat for Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their enslaved black mistresses....

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    • By: John Hope Franklin
    • Narrated by: Lamont Mapp
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule....

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    • African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction
    • By: Jim Downs
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Bush
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2013
    • Language: English
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    • Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death....

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    • A Civil War Nurse
    • By: Pamela Dell
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers....

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    • Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
    • By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind....

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    • The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
    • By: Fatima Shaik
    • Narrated by: Fatima Shaik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle built a community....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Cade Bentley
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In a deeply emotional novel of family, cultural heritage, and forgiveness, estranged sisters wrestle with the choices they’ve made and confront circumstances beyond their control....

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    • By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
    • By: Jacqueline Jones
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.

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    • A Traveler’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861
    • By: Frederick Law Olmsted
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In 1853, Frederick Law Olmsted was working for the New York Times when he journeyed to the southern slave states and wrote one of the most important pro-abolition discourses....

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    • The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
    • By: Andrew Ward
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-2008
    • Language: English
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    • The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict....

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