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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
5.0

A searing account of slavery in the South during the Antebellum period. I was assigned to read this for my Civil War and Reconstruction class and I'm so glad that I was. This book tackles the decades post Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and dives into the horrors and atrocities that American's committed against each other. A must read for those interested in United States History.