Michael Taylor

The Long Road to Emancipation

The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888

By Robin Blackburn

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By Hannah Durkin

Elaine Showalter

Huck Finn as a Female – All in a Good Cause

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By Jane Smiley

Tim Stanley

With Flying Colours

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

By Karl Jacoby

Elizabeth Imlay

No Fun for Slaves

Fanny Kemble: The American Journals

By Fanny Kemble & Elizabeth Mavor (ed)

Paul Johnson

Man On A Manumission

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, And The Creation of America

By Henry Wiencek

Josh Glancy

The Great Emancipator

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By Eric Foner

Jonathan Mirsky

Found At Sea

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

By Sîân Rees

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin