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Explore the African American experience through the following books. This collection of suggested books are intended for students at the Elementary and High School reading levels. If you would like to learn more about these books and others on African American history, please visit your local library or visit an on-line bookstore such as Amazon Books and Barnes and Noble

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Escape From Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Charles Lilly

The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition by Karen Zeinert

The Afro-Americans by Howard Smead

Charles Ball and American Slavery by Charles Ball

Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie by George Sullivan

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin

The Story of Freedom by Eric Foner

Human Cargo: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Anne Terry White

Cornerstones to Freedom: The Story of The Underground Railroad by R. Conrad Stein

Please contact us if you have other suggestions for readings at jmcglade@mondec.monmouth.edu

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*Crossing The Danger Water*	*Tales From The Underground Railroad*	*Underground Railroad*
Deirdre Mullane	Kate Connell	Marlene Targ Brill


*The Black Man In America 1619-1790* :	*Slavery To Civil War 1812-1865*	*North Star To Freedom*
Florence and J.B. Jackson	William Loren Hatz	Gena K. Gorrel


*The Underground Railroad*	*The African American Family Album*	*Get On Board*
Raymond Bial	Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler	Jim Haskins


*Frederick Douglass*	*Slavery & Freedom In The Rural North*	*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl*
Mona Kerby	Graham Russell Hodges	Harriet A. Jacobs