Books like My bondage and my freedom
12 books with a reading profile close to My bondage and my freedom by Frederick Douglass. Deep; a moderate read.
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Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Also deep · history, memoir
Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish pianist for Polish Radio, provides a first-hand account of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
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Assata: An Autobiography
history, memoir
Assata Shakur recounts her life as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, structured around her 1973 arrest on the New Jersey Turnpike and subsequent imprisonment.
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Infidel
history, memoir
Infidel follows Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life from her childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her career as a Dutch parliamentarian.
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
history, memoir
Austin Channing Brown narrates her life navigating predominantly white religious and corporate organizations, beginning with the story of how her parents chose her name to ensure she would reach the interview stage of e…
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
history, memoir
In 1942, Edith Hahn, a Jewish law student from Vienna, escaped deportation by assuming the identity of a Christian woman named Grete Denner.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Also deep · history, memoir
The narrative chronicles Malcolm Little’s evolution from a Midwestern childhood marked by white supremacist violence to his street life as a hustler and thief in Harlem.
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Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
history, memoir
Jung Chang traces the history of twentieth-century China through the lives of three generations of women: her grandmother, her mother, and herself.
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
history, memoir
Edmund de Waal traces a collection of 264 netsuke—tiny Japanese ivory and wood carvings—to reconstruct his ancestors’ history.
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Shadows of the Workhouse
history, memoir
In this second volume of her memoirs, Jennifer Worth documents the lives of people in London’s East End who were shaped by the British Victorian workhouse system.
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