Try Booker T. Washington's Autobiography. http://tinyurl.com/bookerT

Roots.

Uncle Tom's Cabin. :D

Alex Haley's Roots is a good example. It can be very long, try watching the movie.

Roots is the best!

Time on the Cross which is a story about slavery in America. The authors won Nobel Prizes for this book and I found it to be very good reading. Interesting to know, the first state to attemp to abolish slavery was the Colony of Virginia. The first state to have slaves was the colony of Mass. Whites were slaves in this country at one time. Blacks owned slaves right along with White slave owners. Norther Banks were big into the financing of slaves, sort of like a GMAC of the slave industry. While the North wanted slavery abolished and definitely didn't want the new state to be slave states, this was nothing to do with morals. They did want the slave states to gain the upper hand in the Senate. They didn;t want the slaves to be counted and used in computing the number of Congressmen and have the South gain the upper hand in the House of Rep. The Confederate Consititution banned the inportation of slavery from outside the country (CSA), and slavery was doomed anyway due to the fact that it was becoming no longer financially workable. The only real difference between a slave in the South and an indentured servent in the North was that the Indentured Servent was not entitled to being cared for in his old age. No one can, should, or is, defending the institution of slavery but it is more complicated, a lot more complicated, that it is being taught in public schools. The Civil, (War between the States). was about money and power in the Federal government. Slavery was just an excuse. The war was almost 2 years old before Lincoln "freed" the slaves and then it was just the slaves in the South that were not in Federal hands. Slaves that were in Federal Hands and slaves in the North were just out of luck. While Lincoln was busy freeing slaves in the south, he could have freed the slaves outside his window in Washington but he didn't. Slaves in the North were not freed until AFTER the war.

Flash For Freedom by George McDonald Frasier. What makes it great is the way he looks at it from every possible angle. He emulates a technique of Shakespeare. Shakespeare would look at something-such as bravery-from different views by incorporating one viewpoint in a character. Frasier puts Flashman in the shoes of each type person involved. Some hate the Flashman books because they dislike the protaganist so much. He is based on a bully at Rugby school in Thomas Hughes book Tom Brown's Schooldays from about the 1840s. The books are hilarious as our cowardly "hero" wins every medal for bravry conceived of.

Octavia Butler's "Kindred" is amazing. It's fiction but she put in a huge amount of research.

Roots would have to be at the top of my list.

Roots, for sure. About the TV series go to http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/roots/roots.htm 85% of American households are said to have watched this eight-part miniseries, in total or in part, notwithstanding that top TV people thought it would be a disaster. It was a fantastic show.

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

"Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made" by Eugene D. Genovese "Slave Culture" by Sterling Stuckey I highly recommend both.