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Readers who finished Frederick Douglass by John Passaro and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Civil War Period (1850-1877), Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, United States, and Juvenile Nonfiction.

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Who Was Sojourner Truth?

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln — Lynda Jones

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman — Monica Kulling

Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Seven Miles to Freedom The Robert Smalls Story — Janet Halfmann

Seven Miles to Freedom The Robert Smalls Story

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Young Frederick Douglass Freedom Fighter — Andrew Woods

Young Frederick Douglass Freedom Fighter

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

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Martha E. H. Rustad

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Black Heroes of the American Revolution — Burke Davis

Black Heroes of the American Revolution

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

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A Weed Is a Flower The Life of George Washington Carver

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress — Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress

Elizabeth Keckley

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

12 Years a Slave A True Story — Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave A True Story

Solomon Northup

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

The Fire of Freedom Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War — David S. Cecelski

The Fire of Freedom Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War

David S. Cecelski

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad — John P. Parker

His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

The Color of Abolition How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation — Linda Hirshman

The Color of Abolition How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama — William Warren Rogers

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Forbidden Fruit Love Stories from the Underground Railroad — Betty DeRamus

Forbidden Fruit Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Sojourner Truth — Peter Krass

Sojourner Truth

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Mary Lincoln Biography Of A Marriage — Ruth Painter Randall

Mary Lincoln Biography Of A Marriage

Ruth Painter Randall

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Yearning to Breathe Free Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families — Andrew Billingsley

Yearning to Breathe Free Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families

Andrew Billingsley

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

John Brown — W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Till Victory Is Won Black Soldiers in the Civil War — Zak Mettger

Till Victory Is Won Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

Up from Slavery An Autobiography (Complete and Unabridged.) — Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery An Autobiography (Complete and Unabridged.)

Booker T. Washington

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • United States

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Frederick Douglass by John Passaro. Connected by Civil War Period (1850-1877), Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, United States. Authors featured include Yona Zeldis McDonough, Lynda Jones, Monica Kulling, Janet Halfmann, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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