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Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,251,949 ratings — published 1936
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.31 — 266,357 ratings — published 1979
A Mouthful of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.41 — 22 ratings — published
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,105 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.06 — 440,661 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.98 — 484,881 ratings — published 1987
Django Unchained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,107 ratings — published 2012
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,499 ratings — published 2018
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,032 ratings — published 1999
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.45 — 454,048 ratings — published 2024
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,485 ratings — published 2017
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,331,025 ratings — published 1885
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.92 — 241,413 ratings — published 1852
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.13 — 133,763 ratings — published 1845
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,653 ratings — published 1861
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.06 — 118,305 ratings — published 2019
1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.74 — 318 ratings — published 2008
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,843 ratings — published 2003
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,208 ratings — published 1968
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.43 — 82,896 ratings — published 2021
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,159 ratings — published 2019
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.95 — 37,819 ratings — published 2013
North and South (North and South, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.21 — 62,354 ratings — published 1982
A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.63 — 871 ratings — published 2012
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,384 ratings — published 1853
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,792 ratings — published 2012
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,569 ratings — published 2013
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.26 — 330,633 ratings — published 2014
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,875 ratings — published 1835
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,485 ratings — published 2011
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,009,479 ratings — published 1876
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,704 ratings — published 2007
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,450 ratings — published 1976
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,002 ratings — published 1974
The Demon of Unrest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 54,466 ratings — published 2024
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.41 — 175 ratings — published 2017
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,561 ratings — published 2018
Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,135 ratings — published 2016
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,735 ratings — published 2020
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.25 — 199,703 ratings — published 2022
John Brown's Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.27 — 329 ratings — published 2021
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,616 ratings — published 1850
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,125 ratings — published 2020
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,102 ratings — published 2017
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,129 ratings — published 2018
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,237 ratings — published 1998
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,379 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,179 ratings — published 2012
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,581 ratings — published 2018
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,538 ratings — published 2008
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'? You’ll never find someone who fits that mold neatly, you know. On the whole, all people are good, or at least they’re normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch. That’s why you have to be careful.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“The ever-present war in the background lent a pleasant informality to social relations, an informality which older people viewed with alarm. Mothers found strange men calling on their daughters, men who came without letters of introduction and whose antecedents were unknown. To their horror, mothers found their daughters holding hands with these men. Mrs. Merriwether, who had never kissed her husband until after the wedding ceremony, could scarcely believe her eyes when she caught Maybelle kissing the little Zouave, Rene Picard, and her consternation was even greater when Maybelle refused to be ashamed. Even the fact that Rene immediately asked for her hand did not improve matters. Mrs. Merriwether felt that the South was heading for a complete moral collapse and frequently said so. Other mothers concurred heartily with her and blamed it on the war.
But men who expected to die within a week or a month could not wait a year before they begged to call a girl by her first name, with "Miss," of course, preceding it. Nor would they go through the formal and protracted courtships which good manners had prescribed before the war. They were likely to propose in three or four months. And girls who knew very well that a lady always refused a gentlemen the first three times he proposed rushed headlong to accept the first time.”
― Gone with the Wind
But men who expected to die within a week or a month could not wait a year before they begged to call a girl by her first name, with "Miss," of course, preceding it. Nor would they go through the formal and protracted courtships which good manners had prescribed before the war. They were likely to propose in three or four months. And girls who knew very well that a lady always refused a gentlemen the first three times he proposed rushed headlong to accept the first time.”
― Gone with the Wind
