What to Read After The Peculiar Institution
Readers who loved The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Peculiar Institution is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Peculiar Institution
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
The Impending Crisis
American Slavery, 1619-1877
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The Slave Community
Trouble in Mind
The Bondwoman's Narrative
White Over Black
Saltwater Slavery
The strange career of Jim Crow
Runaway Slaves
Soul by Soul
Half Slave and Half Free
Coming to America
The Plantation Mistress
Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839
The Negro's Civil War
Inhuman Bondage
A Century of Dishonor
From Slavery to Freedom
Mothers of Invention
Race and Reunion
American slavery, American freedom
The radicalism of the American Revolution