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Antebellum Books
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Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,260,190 ratings — published 1936
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.31 — 277,120 ratings — published 1979
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,331 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.06 — 448,696 ratings — published 2016
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,047 ratings — published 1999
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,157 ratings — published 2018
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,756 ratings — published 2017
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.92 — 243,764 ratings — published 1852
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,133 ratings — published 1845
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.98 — 495,537 ratings — published 1987
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,472 ratings — published 1861
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.43 — 527,600 ratings — published 2024
Yellow Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.44 — 88,518 ratings — published 2021
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.06 — 119,782 ratings — published 2019
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,341,750 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 — 45,427 ratings — published 2003
The Confessions of Nat Turner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,271 ratings — published 1968
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.96 — 38,583 ratings — published 2013
North and South (North and South, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.21 — 62,603 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 — 886 ratings — published 2012
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,428 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 — 1,838 ratings — published 2012
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.26 — 334,050 ratings — published 2014
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,171 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 — 6,601 ratings — published 2011
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,025,141 ratings — published 1876
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,799 ratings — published 2007
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 — 58,526 ratings — published 2024
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,798 ratings — published 2018
Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,201 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 — 1,776 ratings — published 2020
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.24 — 210,174 ratings — published 2022
John Brown's Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.26 — 336 ratings — published 2021
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,679 ratings — published 1850
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,159 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 3.86 — 8,179 ratings — published 2017
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,000 ratings — published 2018
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,589 ratings — published 1998
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,365 ratings — published 2019
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 — 2,442 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 — 6,202 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 — 2,642 ratings — published 2018
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.86 — 57,183 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 4.03 — 907 ratings — published 2011
Meet Cécile (American Girls: Marie-Grace and Cécile, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,314 ratings — published 2011
Meet Marie-Grace (American Girls: Marie-Grace and Cécile, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,024 ratings — published 2011
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 4.50 — 44,545 ratings — published 2017
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as antebellum)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,188 ratings — published 1849
“Meanwhile, I learned my future depended not on the plans of another, but on fate and myself.”
― Old Burnside
― Old Burnside
“It sat proudly basking in the warm glow of the street lights; it wasn't a menacing 'enter at your own risk' sight at all. More of a 'come in if you'd like, if not then have a lovely evening' picturesque artifact of the Old South.”
― Small Orange Fruit
― Small Orange Fruit
