Did you have a particular time or subject in mind? The book list has a few good suggestions, which I have selected here.

Colonial Era

• The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
• American Slavery, American Freedom
• Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

Antebellum

• Roll, Jordan, Roll
• The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
• Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
• Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

Civil War

• Half Slave and Half Free
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
• A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Progressive Era

• Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917

Civil Rights

• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
• Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963