Books by CTTT members

One of the most important actions in Taking America Beyond the Legacy of Enslavement is to continue to educate ourselves. Here is a wealth of reading material to help do just that; all written by members of CTTT. You can order any of these books through your local bookstore (locate independent bookstores at IndieBound), from a Black-owned Bookstore, or you can click on any book below to order through Amazon. For those who order through the Amazon links below, a small portion of your purchase price will be sent by Amazon to Coming to the Table.

Books written by members of the CTTT Community

• The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family, by Mark Auslander
• Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory, by R. Gregory Nokes
• Brotherhood, by A.B. Westrick
• Cousins: Connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past – and each other, by Betty Kilby Baldwin & Phoebe Kilby
  • All author proceeds from sales of Cousins are donated to the Kilby Family Endowed Scholarship Fund, which offers college scholarships to descendants of the people Phoebe’s family enslaved, including Betty’s grandchildren.
• The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, A Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth, by Karen Branan
• The Forage House, by Tess Taylor
• Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade, by Sharon Morgan and Thomas DeWolf
• Gourdvine Black and White: Slavery and the Kilby Families of the Virginia Piedmont, by Tim Kilby
  • All proceeds from Gourdvine go to the Kilby Family Endowed Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships to descendants of persons enslaved in Culpeper, Rappahannock and Madison counties, Virginia, prior to the end of the Civil War in 1865.
• The Great Wound: Confessions of a Slaveholding Family, by Kenneth W. Collier
• Had Slaves, by Catherine Sasanov
• The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, by Henry Wiencek
• Hoodless Klan, by Ruth R. Baskerville
• Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History, by Thomas Norman DeWolf
• Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family, by Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman
• Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, by Regina Mason (and William L. Andrews)
• The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation & Transformation, by Jodie Geddes and Tom DeWolf
  • All author proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to Coming to the Table.
• Love Cemetery, Unburying the Secret History of Slaves, by China Galland
• Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy, by H.D. Kirkpatrick
• NEW in 2022: My Life in the Sunshine, by Nabil Ayers
• The North Door: Echoes of Slavery in a New England Family, by Grant Hayter-Menzies
  • All author proceeds are donated: 50% to Coming to the Table and 50% to The Slave Dwelling Project
• Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward, by Skot Welch, Rick Wilson, and Andi Cumbo-Floyd
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy
• Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy, by Gayle Jessup White
• Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, by 25 CTTT authors; edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss
  • 75% of author proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to Coming to the Table
• The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of My Home, by Andi Cumbo-Floyd
• Steele Secrets Series Box Set , by Andi Cumbo-Floyd
• The Sword of the Lord, by Andrew Himes
• Uncle George & Me, by Bill Sizemore
• Unloose My Heart, by Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens 
• Wit, Will & Walls, by Betty Kilby Baldwin