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Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,257,020 ratings — published 1936
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,230 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.06 — 445,179 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.31 — 271,599 ratings — published 1979
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,044 ratings — published 1999
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,790 ratings — published 2018
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,627 ratings — published 2017
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.92 — 242,769 ratings — published 1852
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,955 ratings — published 1845
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,824 ratings — published 1987
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 58,051 ratings — published 1861
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.44 — 495,194 ratings — published 2024
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,179 ratings — published 2019
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,337,343 ratings — published 1885
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 3.75 — 320 ratings — published 2008
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,156 ratings — published 2003
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,246 ratings — published 1968
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.43 — 85,895 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 — 5,264 ratings — published 2019
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,266 ratings — published 2013
North and South (North and South, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.21 — 62,499 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 — 876 ratings — published 2012
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,395 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 3.98 — 1,825 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 — 5,603 ratings — published 2013
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.26 — 332,462 ratings — published 2014
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,035 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 — 6,540 ratings — published 2011
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,019,238 ratings — published 1876
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,758 ratings — published 2007
The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,469 ratings — published 1976
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,007 ratings — published 1974
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 56,889 ratings — published 2024
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.41 — 177 ratings — published 2017
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,673 ratings — published 2018
Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,178 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 3.70 — 1,764 ratings — published 2020
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.24 — 205,838 ratings — published 2022
John Brown's Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.26 — 334 ratings — published 2021
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,652 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 — 1,135 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 — 8,140 ratings — published 2017
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,632 ratings — published 2018
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,460 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 — 2,421 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 — 6,192 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 — 2,618 ratings — published 2018
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,960 ratings — published 2008
Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2013
Troubles for Cécile (American Girls: Marie-Grace and Cécile, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.02 — 898 ratings — published 2011
“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
