- Addy saves the day, a summer story, by Connie Porter ; illustrations, Bradford Brown ; vignettes, Renée Graef, Geri Strigenz Bourget
- The revelation of Louisa May, a novel of intrigue and romance, by Michaela MacColl
- Voyage of slaves, a tale from the castaways of the Flying Dutchman, Brian Jacques ; illustrated by David Elliot
- A sitting in St. James, Rita Williams-Garcia
- The known world, Edward P. Jones
- The secret to freedom, by Marcia Vaughan ; illustrated by Larry Johnson
- Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
- Meet Addy, an American girl, by Connie Porter ; illustrations, Melodye Rosales ; vignettes, Renée Graef and Luann Roberts
- Sold, Patricia McCormick
- My name is not Friday, by Jon Walter
- Monkey hunting, Cristina Garcia
- Calico Girl, Jerdine Nolen
- Abraham Lincoln, letters from a slave girl, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Show way, by Jacqueline Woodson ; illustrated by Hudson Talbott
- Imani's music, by Sheron Williams ; illustrated by Jude Daly
- Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Freedom over me, eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life, by Ashley Bryan
- Letters from a slave girl, the story of Harriet Jacobs, Mary E. Lyons
- Never forgotten, by Patricia C. McKissack ; artwork by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Lion Island, Cuba's warrior of words, Margarita Engle
- Crows & cards, a novel, written with diligence by Mr. Joseph Helgerson ; to which are added fine illustrations by Mr Peter Desève ; also included is Dictionarium Americannicum; being the words herein most arcane and alien and their definitions
- A picture of Freedom, the diary of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859, by Patricia C. McKissack
- The forty thieves, Marjana's tale, by Christy Lenzi
- The American daughters, a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Homegoing, a novel, Yaa Gyasi
- Freewater, Amina Luqman-Dawson
- Bound by blood and sand, Becky Allen
- Jefferson's sons, a founding father's secret children, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- The purchase, Linda Spalding
- Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Day of tears, Julius Lester
- Nightjohn, by Gary Paulsen
- Henry's freedom box, by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- The bitter side of sweet, Tara Sullivan
- Under a painted sky, Stacey Lee
- A shout in the ruins, a novel, Kevin Powers
- The journey of little Charlie, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Ashes, Laurie Halse Anderson
- The cellar, Minette Walters
- Born on the water, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson ; illustrated by Nikkolas Smith
- Next stop, freedom, the story of a slave girl, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler and Carey-Greenberg Associates ; pictures by Cheryl Hanna
- Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
- Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt, by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by James Ransome
- A light in the storm, the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin, by Karen Hesse
- The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation, taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by M.T. Anderson of Boston, v. 1
- Nettie's trip South, Ann Turner ; illustrated by Ronald Himler. --
- The deep, by Rivers Solomon ; with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
- The patchwork path, a quilt map to freedom, Bettye Stroud ; illustrated by Erin Susanne Bennett
- Unbound, a novel in verse, by Ann E. Burg
- Sweetsmoke, a novel, David Fuller