Juneteenth

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Juneteenth

By Jennifer Jacobs

Juneteenth commemorates the day the last enslaved people were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865. This list honors the holiday featuring historical fictional books based around slavery.

1 Beloved

Toni Morrison

2 The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

3 The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris

4 Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

5 Juneteenth

Ralph Ellison

6 Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

7 Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Solomon Northup

8 The Book of Night Women

Marlon James

9 Cane River

Lalita Tademy

10 The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

11 The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

12 The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

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