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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 838 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Philippe Girard
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • An American Controversy
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

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    • Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
    • By: Diane McWhorter
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation....

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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • By: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • America's Ancient Pasts
    • By: Daniel K. Richter
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, who created a unique place called the United States. But the US has a much deeper history than is apparent....

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    • America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    • By: Kate Masur
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War....

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    • From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
    • By: Geoffrey Plank
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....

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    • A History of Abolition
    • By: Manisha Sinha
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image....

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    • Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
    • By: Karen Cook Bell
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War....

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    • The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
    • By: Daphne A. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a new perspective on acclaimed figures such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce, who exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women....

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    • By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002 ratings
    • A startling and eye-opening look into America's first family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave....

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    • Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Larry Herron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders....

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    • Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
    • By: David Brion Davis
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism....

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    • The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the 20th century's most iconic African American leaders....

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    • A Captivating Guide to African American History and the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Two manuscripts in one book: African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the United States; and Haitian Revolution....

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