Bolden, Tonya. Crossing Ebenezer Creek. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

Devenny, Jenny.Race Cars: A Children’s book about white privilege. Beverly, MA : Quarto Knows, 2021.
A story of two best friends, a white car and a black car, that have different experiences and face different rules while entering the same race

Fradin, Judith Bloom. Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man.Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2012.
Follows the story of Solomon Northup--a free black man who was kidnapped and forced into slavery--through his twelve years of bondage in Louisiana until friends from New York rescued him from a cotton plantation.

Henderson, Leah. A Day for Rememberin': The First Memorial Day.New York, NY: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021.
In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day. Includes author's note.

Levine, Ellen.Henry’s Freedom Box. New York: Scholastic Press, 2007.
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Marsalis, Wynton. Squeak! rumble! whomp! whomp! whomp!Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2012.
Ringing with exuberance and auditory delights, this collaboration by jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis and illustrator Paul Rogers takes readers (and listeners) on a rollicking, clanging, clapping tour through the many sounds that fill a neighborhood. Visual clues are provided in the illustration that provide context that it is set in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Walter, Jon. My Name is Not Friday. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc, 2016.
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.

Wiechman, Kathy Cannon. Like a River. Honesdale, PA.: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, 2015.
Two Union soldiers, one too young to have properly enlisted, and the other a girl disguised as a boy, find themselves struggling through the rigors and horrors of war, from amputation to the Andersonville prison camp.