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North American in Comparative Perspective: Sources for Teaching, Research, and General Background

Bibliographies:

Miller, Joseph C., Slavery: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1982 (1985); for works published after 1985, see Miller, “Slavery: Annual Bibliography Supplements,” in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies Miller, Randal M. and John David Smith, Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988) Smith, John David, Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865- 1980 (1982)

General:

Berlin, Ira, Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves Blackburn, Robin, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492- 1800 Curtin, Philip, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Davis, David Brion, Slavery and Human Progress Foner, Eric, The Story of American Freedom Foner, Philip S., History of Black Americans: From Africa to the Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom Goodheart, Lawrence B., Richard D. Brown, and Stephen G. Rabe, Slavery in American Society, 3rd ed. (D.C. Heath, Problems in American Civilization series; extensive selections from secondary and primary sources, excellent for students) Gutman, Herbert G., The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 Kelley, Robin D.G. and Earl Lewis, eds., To Make Our World Anew: A History of Kolchin, Peter, American Slavery, 1619-1877 Patterson, Orlando, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study Patterson, Orlando, Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture Tannenbaum, Frank, Slave and Citizen: The in the Americas Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery

Slavery, Memory and Popular Representations:

Blight, David W., Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Bogle, Donald, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films Davis, Natalie Zemon, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen, eds., Black Imagination and the Middle Passage Fleishner, Jennifer, Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives Painter, Nell Irvin, : A Life, A Symbol Wood, Marcus, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865 Bibliography 2

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Curtin, Philip D., The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census Eltis, David, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas Inikori, Joseph E. and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade Lovejoy, Paul E., Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Manning, Patrick, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental and African Slave Trades Miller, Joseph, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 Northrup, David, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade Phillips, William D., Jr., Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade Rodney, Walter, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800 Solow, Barbara L., ed., Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System Thornton, John K., Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680

Slavery in the Caribbean and Elsewhere:

Beckles, Hilary, and Verene Shepherd, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World Blackburn, Robin, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery Dunn, Richard, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the , 1624-1713 Finley, Moses I., Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology Goveia, Elsa, Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century James, C.L.R., The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Knight, Franklin W., Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century Lewis, Bernard, Race and Slavery in the Middle East Palmer, Colin, Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650 Schwartz, Stuart, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society Tomich, Dale W. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-48 Toplin, Robert Brent, The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

Colonial Slavery:

Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Berlin, Ira, and Ronald Hoffman, eds., Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolution Breen, Timothy H., and Steven Innes, Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1675 Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, Africans in Colonial : The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century Kulikoff, Allan, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 Landers, Jane, Black Society in Spanish Florida Morgan, Edmund S., American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia Morgan, Philip D., Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry Olwell, Robert, Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the Bibliography 3

Usner, Daniel, Indians, Settlers & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 Walsh, Lorena, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: A History of a Virginia Slave Community Wood, Peter, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

Slavery in the North:

Hodges, Graham Russell, Root & Branch: African Americans in & East Jersey, 1613- 1863 Hodges, Graham Russell, Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 Horton, James O. and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 McManus, Edgar J., A History of Negro Slavery in New York Melish Joanne Pope, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in , 1780- 1860 Nash, Gary B., Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720- 1840 Piersen, William D., Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Sub-Culture in Eighteenth Century New England White, Shane, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City Zilversmit, Arthur, The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North

Identities, Culture, and Religion:

Abrahams, Roger D., Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South Bentley, Judith, Fields, Barbara J., “Race and Ideology in American History,” in J. Morgan Kousser and James McPherson, eds., Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward Frey, Sylvia R.and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 Gomez, Michael, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in The Colonial and Levine, Lawrence, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom Mintz, Sidney W. and Richard Price, The Birth of African American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective Painter, Nell Irvin, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Palmie, Stephan, ed., Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery Rael, Patrick, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North Stuckey, Sterling, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundation of Black America Thompson, Robert Faris, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy Vlach, John Michael, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery Woodson, Carter G., The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860 Bibliography 4

Gendered Slavery:

Alexander, Adele Logan, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Antebellum Georgia Brown, Elsa Barkley, Darlene Clark Hine, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South Frankel, Noralee, Freedom’s Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi Gaspar, David Barry and Darlene Clark Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas Jones, Jacqueline, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, From Slavery to the Present Schwalm, Leslie A., A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina White, Deborah Grey, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Antebellum Slavery and Freedom:

Berlin, Ira and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas Berlin, Ira and Philip D. Morgan, eds., The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas Berlin, Ira, Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South Blassingame, John, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South Dew, Charles B., Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge Elkins, Stanley, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life Faust, Drew Gilpin, James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (especially chapter 5) Fogel, Robert W., Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Genovese, Eugene, Roll Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Hudson, Larry E. Jr., ed., Working Towards Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South Hudson, Larry E., To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina Johnson, Michael P. and James L Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South Johnson, Walter, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Jones Joyner, Charles, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community King, Wilma, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth Century America Kolchin, Peter, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom Lockley, Timothy, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860 Painter Phillips, Christopher, Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of , 1790- 1860 Reidy, Joseph, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (especially chapters 1-5) Bibliography 5

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins, Born in Bondage: Growing up Enslaved in the Antebellum South Stampp, Kenneth, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South Stevenson, Brenda E., Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South Tadman, Michael, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders and Slaves in the Old South Takagi, Midori, Rearing Wolves to our own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782- 1865 Whitman, T. Stephen, The Price of Freedom: Slavery and in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

Slavery and the Law:

Fehrenbacher, Don, The Slaveholders Republic: An Account of the Government’s Relations to Slavery Finkleman, Paul, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity Lynd, Staughton, Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution Morris, Thomas, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1689-1860 Schafer, Judith Kelleher, Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana Schwartz, Philip, Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1856

The Destruction of Slavery:

Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War Faust, Drew Gilpin, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the Fields, Barbara Jeanne, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century Mohr, Clarence L., On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the Civil War

Published Primary Sources:

Andrews, William L., ed., Six Women’s Slave Narratives Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., The Black Military Experience Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., The Destruction of Slavery Berlin, Ira and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African American Kinship in the Civil War Era Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Freedom’s Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, eds., Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation Blassingame, John W., ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (CALL #: E444.S57) Carretta, Vincent, ed., Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century Bibliography 6

Conrad, Robert E., ed., In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union (CALL #: E441.I49 2001) Curtin, Phillip, ed., Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans From the Era of the Slave Trade Davis, Charles T. and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Slave’s Narrative Davis, David Brion and Steven Mintz, eds., This Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America From Discovery Through the Civil War (CALL #: MCK Ref E187.B65 1998) Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of , an American Slave, ed. David W. Blight Equiano, Olaudah, Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, ed. Vincent Carretta Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources Hodges, Graham Russell and Alan Edward Brown, eds., “Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (CALL #: E445.N56P74 1994) Jacobs, Harriet A., Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself McLaurin, Melton A., Celia: A Slave Miller, Randall M., ed., Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family (CALL #: E444.D42 1978) Mullin, Michael, ed., American Negro Slavery: A Documentary History (CALL #: E441.A577 1976) Newman, Richard, Patrick Rael, and Philip Lapsansky, eds., Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Prince, Mary, The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, ed. Sara Salih Purdue, Charles, et al., eds. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves Rawick, George P., ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography Two series, 1972 and 1979 (CALL #: E441.A58) Ripley, Peter C., ed., Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation Rose, Willie Lee, ed., A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (CALL #: E441.D64) Rosengarten, Theodore, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter Smith, Billy G. and Richard Wojtowicz, eds., Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1790 (CALL #: E443.B525 1989) Starobin, Robert, ed., Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves (CALL #: E444.S82 1974) Taylor, Susie King. A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs. Eds. Patricia W. Romero and Willie Lee Rose Windley, Lathan A., A Profile of Runaway Slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 (CALL #: E445.V8W593 1995) Wish, Harvey, ed., Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Antebellum American Southland from Northern and Southern Whites, Negroes, & Foreign Observers (CALL #: E441.W78) Selected Slavery Websites and Electronic Databases:

Andrews, William. “Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives,” at http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html Ayers, Edward L. “Valley of the Shadow—Two Communities in the American Civil War,” at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/ Bibliography 7

Costa, Thomas, ed., “Runaway Slave Advertisements from 18th Century Virginia Newspapers,” at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/runaways/ Eltis, David. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM. Freedmen and Southern Society Project, at http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/index.html Handler, Jerome and Michael L. Tuite, Jr., “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record,” at http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/ History Department, University of Maryland and Montgomery County Public Schools. “Rethinking the Americas: Teaching History Outreach Project on the Americas,” at http://www.mith2.umd.edu/mcpshistory/berlin_workshop.html

H-Slavery (the history of slavery on the web) Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation at http://www.h-net.org/~slavery/

Library of Congress Collection of Slave Narratives. Go to American Memory website, at http://memory.loc.gov Click on “Collection Finder,” then search under terms “slave narratives.” Also very useful for map collections and many other documents.

Mintz, Steven and Sara McNeil. Digital History, at http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm Among other resources, this site includes extensive materials on slavery, including annotated excerpts from the slave narratives.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, at http://www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/

Mystic Seaport. “Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America,” at http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html

New York Public Library. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Selected Genealogical Websites:

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society http://www.aahgs.org/

Afrigeneas http://www.afrigeneas.com/ Bibliography 8

Christine's Genealogy Website http://www.ccharity.com/

Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com/african.htm