![]() Readers connect with dehumanized slaves who are severed from their African homeland and forced into unspeakable acts. Even in the fiction genre, authors pull our attention and heartstrings by portraying historically accurate accounts on the reality of slavery. However, slavery is still practiced today with an estimated 30 million living enslaved worldwide.īooks about slavery don’t shy away from this traumatic social justice issue they follow characters living through its brutal effects. ![]() Large cotton plantations below the Maxon-Dixon line used and abused slaves sold through the Atlantic slave trade.Īfter the bloody Civil War ended in 1865, slavery was formally abolished in the United States. All Thirteen Colonies legalized slavery, but it was particularly important to the South’s economy. In the early 17th century, Dutch traders first captured Africans for forced labor in tobacco fields and planted the seeds of slavery in America. ![]() Many historical fiction authors have confronted our nation’s cruel, inhumane past by crafting books about slavery. ![]()
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