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Juneteenth Reading List

Celebrate June 19th with these books about the abolition of slavery.

Chicago Public Library

29 items

  • PaperbackNew York : Vintage International, 2004. — FIC MORRISON
  • BookNew York : Random House, [2020] — FICTION
  • Envisioning Emancipation

    Black Americans and the End of Slavery

    Willis, Deborah, 1948-
    BookPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2013. — E185.2.W68 2013
  • Forever Free

    the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

    Foner, Eric, 1943-
    BookNew York : Knopf, 2005. — E668.F655 2005
  • Four Hundred Souls

    a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — E185.F625 2021
  • PaperbackNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. — E449.D75B557 2018
  • Freedom National

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

    Oakes, James
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton, c2013. — E453.O13 2013
  • BookBerkeley : Counterpoint, [2016] — FICTION
  • PaperbackBoston ; New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. — FICTION
  • PaperbackNew York : Vintage Books, 2000, c1999. — FICTION
  • The Juneteenth Cookbook

    Recipes and Activities for Kids and Families to Celebrate

    Agostini, Alliah L.,
    BookNew York, NY, USA : Becker & Mayer! Kids, 2024. — TX715.2.A47A36 2024
  • BookAustin : University of Texas Press, 2024. — GV1834.55.T49B57 2024
  • Lincoln's Gamble

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

    Brewster, Todd
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2014. — E453.B835 2014
  • The Long Emancipation

    The Demise of Slavery in the United States

    Berlin, Ira, 1941-
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015. — E441.B48 2015
  • BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — E185.93.T4G67 2021
  • Raising Freedom's Child

    Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery

    Mitchell, Mary Niall
    BookNew York : New York University Press, c2008. — E185.86M57 2008
  • BookNew York : Warner Books, 2007. — FIC TADEMY