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Books like 12 Years a Slave

Explore 24 books like 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup — a handpicked selection united by LOUISIANA_HISTORY, PLANTATION LIFE, ENSLAVED PERSONS_UNITED STATES, and SLAVERY_UNITED STATES_HISTORY.

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Top related books to 12 Years a Slave

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of 12 Years a Slave.

Slaves in the Family

Edward Ball

Themes: PLANTATION LIFE • SLAVERY_UNITED STATES_HISTORY

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

Cleveland L. Sellers EdD.

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

Dizzy

Jonah Winter

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

I Didn’t Come From Nowhere: A Documentary Life of Marie Cheek Johnson, Daughter of a Slave

Ethard Van Stee

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

Being a Black Man At the Corner of Progress and Peril

Kevin Merida

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins (Who Did It First?)

Michelle Meadows

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement (Rainbow Biography)

Angela Shelf Medearis

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

The Last Train North

Clifton L. Taulbert

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave (Literature; 25)

Howard E. Potts

Themes: ENSLAVED PERSONS_UNITED STATES

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Mysterious Thelonious

Chris Raschka

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#11

Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861January 1863

Dr. Donald S. Frazier

Themes: LOUISIANA_HISTORY

#12

Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America

Sharon Robinson

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#13

Myths & Realities of American Slavery: The True History of Slavery in America

John C. Perry

Themes: SLAVERY_UNITED STATES_HISTORY

#14

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It

Herb Boyd

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#15

Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir

Mel Watkins

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#16

Vernon Can Read! A Memoir

Vernon E., Jr. Jordan

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#17

Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl (Women in Southern Culture)

Kitty Oliver

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#18

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#19

Skin Talking about Sex, Class & Literature

Dorothy Allison

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#20

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

Casey Gerald

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#21

Indiana and Ohio Narratives

George P. Rawick

Themes: ENSLAVED PERSONS_UNITED STATES

#22

Same Kind of Different as Me

Ron Hall

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#23

Barack

Jonah Winter

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

#24

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Themes: AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup — spanning LOUISIANA_HISTORY, PLANTATION LIFE, ENSLAVED PERSONS_UNITED STATES and featuring authors such as Edward Ball, Cleveland L. Sellers EdD., Jonah Winter, Ethard Van Stee, and others.