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• America's Long Struggle Against Slavery. Episode 28, Fighting Slavery After Emancipation

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  The end of the Civil War brought legalized slavery in the United States to an end, and 3.5 million formerly enslaved people in the South stepped into an uncertain future. Dive into some of the many challenges Americans faced in the subsequent years.

• Black Food

  Stories, Art, and Essays

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  As much a joyful celebration of culture as a cookbook, Black Food explores the interweaving of food, experience, and community through original poetry and essays.

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  "A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.

• Freedom National

  the Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

  Oakes, James

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  Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country.

• Jubilee

  Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998

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  Weaving her own family's oral history with 30 years of research, Margaret Walker brings the everyday experiences of enslaved people to light in this bestselling classic that churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jubilee

  Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking

  Tipton-Martin, Toni

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  More than 100 recipes that paint a rich, varied picture of the true history of African American cooking--from a James Beard Award-winning food writer.

• Juneteenth

  Ellison, Ralph

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  In Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison brings together a race-baiting senator from New England and the musician-turned-preacher who raised him to tell a powerful tale of a prodigal son in the 20th century.

• Juneteenth

  the Story Behind the Celebration

  Cotham, Edward T. (Edward Terrel), 1953-

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  The first scholarly book to delve into the history behind Juneteenth. Using decades of research from archives around the nation, this book helps separate myth from reality and tells the story behind the celebration in a way that provides new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Known World

  Jones, Edward P.

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  An ambitious, courageous, luminously written masterwork, The Known World seamlessly weaves the lives of the freed and the enslaved--and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lincoln's Gamble

  the Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War

  Brewster, Todd

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  A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.

• On Juneteenth

  Gordon-Reed, Annette

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  The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native.

• Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

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  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself amidst profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change.

• Remembering Slavery

  African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom

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  Early in the 1930s, interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project combed the American South in search of formerly enslaved people. The interviewers spoke with hundreds of elderly people about their experiences in slavery. Now remastered with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Slave No More

  Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom : Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

  Blight, David W.

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  Drawing on newly uncovered post-Civil War narratives of enslaved people, historian David W. Blight fleshes out the biographies of two men--Wallace Turnage and John Washington-- who managed to escape slavery and went on to make lives for themselves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Slavery and the Making of America

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  Narrated by Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman, this video examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country and challenges the long-held notion that it was exclusively a Southern enterprise.

• Up From Slavery

  Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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  "Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watermelon & Red Birds

  a Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

  Taylor, Nicole A.

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  Taylor bridges the traditional African American table and 21st-century flavors with stories and recipes that will inspire parties to salute the holiday or help you create moments to savor joy all year round.