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Audiobooks that honor Juneteenth

These publisher-nominated audiobooks highlight new releases and bestsellers perfect for celebrating Juneteenth.

How Far We've Come

By: Joyce Efia Harmer
Narrated by: Joyce Efia Harmer
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book of the Week.

Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.

Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados,... Read more

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Frederick Douglass

The Right to Dignity

Heroes of History

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother during infancy, then taken from his grandparents at the age of six to serve at the “Great House” on the Wye Plantation in Maryland. He never imagined the cruelties he would witness or the indignities of his family being treated like cattle to be sold, divided, and... Read more

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Harriet Tubman

Freedombound

Heroes of History

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

The pounding of horses' hooves shattered the night's silence. Harriet froze in the shadow of a tree and peered out into the darkness. She barely dared to breathe as three slave catchers came to a halt only a few feet from her hiding place. Had she escaped from danger so many times only to lose her hope of freedom now?

At age six the sharp bite... Read more

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The Making of a Man (and why we're so afraid to talk about it)

By: Obioma Ugoala
Narrated by: Obioma Ugoala
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

A POWERFUL MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO CHALLENGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BLACK MAN IN BRITAIN

“A blisteringly honest take on contemporary Britishness that manages to be both nuanced and shocking. Highly recommended.” Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)
 
You’re a black man. 
 
Aggressive. Athletic. 
Feared. Fetishised. 
Policed. Politicised.
 
It’s...
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Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted... Read more

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How the Word Is Passed

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

“Poet Clint Smith’s personal, intimate examination of sites of historical significance to slavery is as soulful and accessible as it is urgent and important. The opening chapter on Jefferson’s Monticello is one of the best chapters of American historical writing in recent memory, and should be required reading on the legacy of America’s founders.... Read more

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George Washington Carver

From Slave to Scientist

Heroes of History

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

George's mother panicked when she heard the thunder of horses and the whooping of men. Bushwhackers! She pulled her baby close to her chest and stood rooted to the dirt floor in fear. A man stumbled through her doorway. "We got us one, boys!" he yelled, waving his rifle in the air and dragging his captives into the cold night.

Once a kidnapped... Read more

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Phillis Wheatley

Christian Biographies for Young Readers

By: Simonetta Carr
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 54 minutes

No one could have imagined that the frail, seven-year-old slave girl who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1761 would become the first published African American, achieving fame for her poetry in both America and England. Upon her arrival, Phillis quickly learned to read the Bible and other classic literature, publishing her first poem in... Read more

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The ABCs of Black History

The ABCs of History

By: Rio Cortez
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 55 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In rhyming couplets, Cortez leads readers on a journey through Black life that acknowledges pain and struggle while building confidence with examples of triumph. It’s a tricky maneuver when writing for children, but Cortez pulls it off.” – The New York Times"A uniquely crafted ABC book that portrays some of the most... Read more

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The Future of the American Negro

By: Booker T. Washington
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Written in 1899 by Booker T. Washington, an American educator, orator, and advisor to several United States presidents, The Future of the American Negro outlines Washington's ideas on the history of African-American people and their need for education in order to advance themselves within society. Putting emphasis on the concept of industrial... Read more

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Your Legacy

A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History

By: Schele Williams
Narrated by: Schele Williams
Length: 24 minutes

Your story begins in Africa. Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you. Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy presents an unprecedentedly accessible, empowering, and proud introduction to African American history for children. While your ancestors’... Read more

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Leaving Coy's Hill

By: Katherine A. Sherbrooke
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

An island-wide power failure has thrust Gansett into darkness. We'll take this opportunity to catch up with each of the couples we’ve come to know and love, and meet a few new characters who’ll appear in upcoming books. It’s the heart of summer, and things are getting hot on Gansett Island! Read more

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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, she overcame obstacles to become a leading abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Published originally... Read more

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Juneteenth for Mazie

By: Floyd Cooper
Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price & Tyla Collier
Length: 7 minutes

Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history: the day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the struggles and the triumph as she gets ready to celebrate Juneteenth. Read more

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From the Darkness Cometh the Light

Or, Struggles for Freedom

By: Lucy A. Delaney
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 1 hour 1 minute

During the hardships of obtaining emancipation, two couples shared one home in Illinois. Residing with them was a young black girl named Polly Crocket. But after five years, Polly, along with the two couples, were abducted, placed into a canoe, and taken down south where they became slaves. Polly was then bought by a prior who, after a year,... Read more

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In Search of the Color Purple

The Story of Alice Walker’s Masterpiece

Books About Books: Book #2

By: Salamishah Tillet
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic... Read more

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Sleeping with the Ancestors

How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

By: Joseph McGill Jr. & Herb Frazier
Narrated by: Joseph McGill Jr. & Herb Frazier
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep in former slave dwellings—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America.

Since founding the  Slave Dwelling Project project in 2010, historic preservationist Joseph McGill Jr. has... Read more

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Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of listeners.



A major influence on civil rights,... Read more

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Ain't I a Woman

Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition

By: Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must–read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to... Read more

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They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.



Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that... Read more

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