Breena's Black History Month Bookshelf 2015

Let is snow! I'm reading and re-reading. Here are a few notable titles:

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist

First Freed: Washington, D.C. in the Emancipation Era by Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery by Kate E. R. Pickard

David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Slavery in New York by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson

Lifting As They Climb (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940)
by Elizabeth Lindsay Davis and Sieglinde Lemke

One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album by Walter Dean Myers

Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend by William Arnett and Alvia Wardlaw