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This bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to books documenting the history of
slavery in the U.S. , from its
colonial origins in the 17th century through the adoption of the
13th Amendment to the Constitution , which officially abolished the practice in 1865. In addition, links are provided to related bibliographies and articles elsewhere in Wikipedia.
Histories
Inspection of an African man being sold into slavery.
[1]
Baptist, Edward E. ;
Camp, Stephanie M.H. , eds. (2006).
New Studies in the History of American Slavery . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
978-0-8203-2563-7 .
Bennett, Lerone Jr. (1966) [1962].
Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1966 . Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
Berlin, Ira (1998).
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-81092-9 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1999
[2]
—— (2003).
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-01061-2 .
Brooks, James F. (2011) [2002].
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture).
ISBN
978-0807827147 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2003
[3]
Brown, Richard D. (1976).
Slavery in American Society . Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company.
ISBN
0669000736 .
Christian, Charles M.; Bennet, Sari (1998).
Black Saga: The African American Experience, A Chronology . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
ISBN
0-395-68717-9 .
Davis, David Brion (2006).
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-514073-6 .
David, Paul A. (1976).
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502034-0 .
Drescher, Seymour (2009).
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9781139482967 .
Fischer, David Hackett (2022).
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals . New York: Simon and Schuster.
ISBN
9781982145118 .
Fogel, Robert (1989).
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-01887-3 .
Foner, Eric , ed. (2017) [2005].
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Volume 1 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
ISBN
978-0-393-60339-2 .
Genovese, Eugene D. (1974).
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made . New York: Pantheon Books.
ISBN
0-394-49131-9 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1975
[4]
Johnson, Charles ;
Smith, Patricia (1999).
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery . New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Jones, Jacqueline ;
Wood, Peter H. ;
Borstelmann, Thomas ; May, Elaine Tyler;
Ruiz, Vicki L. , eds. (2017) [2011].
Created Equal: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877 . Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-13-410198-9 .
——; ——; ——; ——; ——, eds. (2017) [2011].
Created Equal: A History of the United States, Volume II: Since 1865 . Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-13-410199-6 .
Jordan, Don; Walsh, Michael (2008).
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America . Washington Square, NY: New York University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8147-4296-9 .
Kolchin, Peter (1987).
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-92097-X . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1988
[5]
—— (1999) [1992].
American Slavery, 1619–1877 . New York: Hill and Wang.
ISBN
0-8090-1554-4 .
Mann, Charles C. (2011).
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Oakes, James (1983) [1982].
The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders . New York: Vintage Books.
ISBN
0-394-71639-6 .
Painter, Nell Irvin (2007).
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-513756-9 .
—— (2010).
The History of White People . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-04934-3 .
Paquette, Robert L. ;
Smith, Mark M. , eds. (2010).
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-922799-0 .
Quarles, Benjamin (1996) [1964].
The Negro in the Making of America . New York: Simon & Schuster.
ISBN
0-684-81888-4 .
Rodriguez, Junius P. (1999).
Chronology of World Slavery . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.
ISBN
0-87436-884-7 .
Rose, Peter I., ed. (2008) [1970].
Slavery and Its Aftermath . New Brunswick, NJ: AldineTransaction.
ISBN
978-0-202-30941-5 .
Schermerhorn, Calvin (2018).
Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-1-107-02766-4 .
Schneider, Dorothy; Schneider, Carl J. (2000).
Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, An Eyewitness History . New York: Facts on File.
ISBN
0-8160-3863-5 .
Smith, Clint (2021). How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America . New York: Little, Brown and Company.
ISBN
978-0316492935 . National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2021
[6]
Stampp, Kenneth M. (1956).
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South . New York: Vintage Books.
Tannenbaum, Frank (1947) [1946].
Slave and Citizen: The Negro in Americas . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Tomlins, Christopher (2010).
Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9781139490931 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2011
[7]
Walker, James W. (1992) [1976].
The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
0-8020-7402-2 .
Washington, Booker T. (1909).
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery, Volume I . New York: Association Press (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
—— (1909).
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery, Volume II . New York: Association Press (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
White, Deborah Gray ;
Bay, Mia ;
Martin, Waldo E. Jr. , eds. (2013).
Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, Volume 1 . Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.
ISBN
978-1-319-06052-7 .
——; ——; ——, eds. (2013).
Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, Volume 2: Since 1865 . Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.
ISBN
978-1-319-06053-4 .
Wilentz, Sean (2005).
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-05820-4 .
Wood, Betty (1997).
The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies . New York: Hill and Wang.
ISBN
0-8090-7456-7 .
Regions
The North
Berlin, Ira ;
Harris, Leslie M. , eds. (2005).
Slavery in New York . New York: New Press.
ISBN
1-56584-997-3 .
Farrow, Anne (2006).
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery . New York: Ballantine Books.
ISBN
0-345-46783-3 .
Hardesty, Jared Ross (2018).
Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston . New York: New York University Press.
ISBN
978-1-4798-0184-8 .
Hodges, Graham Russell Hodge (1999).
Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613—1863 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2492-5 .
Lane, Roger (1986).
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-77990-8 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1987
[8]
Litwack, Leon F. (1961).
North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790–1860 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
9780226485850 .
Nash, Gary B. (2007).
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 . Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-87338-565-7 .
Ottley, Roi ;
Weatherby, William J. , eds. (1967).
The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History, 1626-1940 . New York: Praeger Publishers.
Whitfield, Harvey Amani (2016).
North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes . Vancouver, BC: UBC (University of British Columbia) Press.
ISBN
978-0-7748-3229-8 .
The South
Boles, John B. (2015).
Black Southerners, 1619–1869 . Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
978-0-8131-5786-3 .
Breen, T.H. ; Innes, Stephen (1980).
'Myne Owne Ground': Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-503206-3 .
Bullock, Henry Allen (1967).
A History of Negro Education in the South, from 1619 to the Present . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
9780674399501 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1968
[9]
Campbell, Randolph B. (1989).
An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-1505-3 .
Colburn, David R.; Landers, Jane L., eds. (1995).
The African American Heritage of Florida . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
ISBN
0-8130-1332-1 .
Craven, Wesley Frank (1971).
White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian . Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia.
ISBN
0-8139-0372-6 .
Dunaway, Wilma A. (2003).
Slavery in the American Mountain South . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-81275-5 .
Ely, Melvin Patrick (2004).
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Freedom . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN
0-679-44738-5 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2005
[10]
Engs, Robert Francis (1979).
Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
ISBN
0-8122-7768-6 .
Faust, Drew Gilpin (1977).
A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
0-8018-1967-9 .
Fields, Barbara J. (1985).
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-02340-5 .
Freehling, William W. (1966) [1965].
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-507681-8 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1967
[11]
Genovese, Eugene D. ;
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (2011).
Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-1-107-01164-9 .
Greenberg, Kenneth S (1996).
Honor & Slavery . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-02734-X .
Hahn, Steven (2003).
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-01169-4 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2004; Pulitzer Prize for History, 2004
[12]
Haskell, Alexander B. (2017).
For God, King and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia).
ISBN
9781469618029 .
Ingersoll, Thomas N. (1999).
Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 . Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press.
ISBN
1-57233-023-6 .
Jennison, Watson W. (2012).
Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860 . Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
978-0-8131-3426-0 .
Jewett, Clayton E.; Allen, John O. (2004).
Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0-313-32019-5 .
Kay, Marvin L. Michael; Cary, Lorin Lee (1995).
Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2197-7 .
Koger, Larry (1985).
Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters In South Carolina, 1790-1860 . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
ISBN
0-89950-160-5 .
Merritt, Keri Leigh (2017).
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9781107184244 .
Morgan, Philip D. (1998).
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture).
ISBN
0-8078-2409-7 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1999
[13]
Painter, Nell Irvin (2002).
Southern History across the Color Line . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2692-8 .
Rutman, Darrett B. ; Rutman, Anita H. (1984).
A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-01801-6 .
Sellers, James Benson (1950).
Slavery in Alabama . University, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Sydnor, Charles S. (1965) [1933].
Slavery in Mississippi . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
Taylor, Alan (2013).
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
ISBN
978-0-393-07371-3 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 2014
[14]
Taylor, Joe Gray (1969) [1963].
Slavery in Louisiana . Metairie, LA: Louisiana Historical Association.
ISBN
9780837116372 .
Trexler, Harrison Anthony (1914).
Slavery in Missouri, 1804–1865 . Lancaster, PA: The New Era Printing Company.
Wasserman, Adam (2010) [2009].
A People's History of Florida 1513–1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State . Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
ISBN
978-1-4421670-9-4 .
West, Emily (2004).
Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-02903-8 .
Wood, Peter H. (1974).
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-31482-0 .
Historical eras
Colonial Era: 16th century—1776
Bailyn, Bernard (2012).
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN
978-0-394-51570-0 .
Eltis, David (2000).
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-65231-6 .
Hashaw, Tim (2007).
The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown . New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
ISBN
978-0-7867-1718-7 .
Knight, K.I. (2019).
Unveiled, the Twenty & Odd: Documenting the First Africans in England's America 1619-1625 and Beyond . Clermont, FL: First Freedom Publishing LLC.
ISBN
9781733807708 .
Mancall, Peter, ed. (2018).
The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia).
ISBN
978-1-4384-3979-2 .
McKissack, Pat (2004).
Hard Labor: The First African Americans . New York: Alladin Paperbacks.
ISBN
0-689-86149-4 .
Morgan, Kenneth O. (2000).
Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607–1800 . Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN
1-85331-210-X .
Morgan, Jennifer L. (2021).
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
ISBN
9781478021452 .
Smith, Abbott Emerson (1971) [1947].
Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
9780393005929 .
—— (2003) [1996].
Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-515823-6 .
Revolutionary Era: 1776—early 19th century
Berlin, Ira ; Hoffman, Ronald, eds. (1983).
Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution . Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
ISBN
0-8139-0969-4 .
Blumrosen, Alfred W.; Blumrosen, Ruth G. (2005).
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution . Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN
978-1-4022-0697-9 .
Bolton, S. Charles. Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860 (University of Arkansas Press, 2019)
online
Countryman, Edward (2012).
Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
ISBN
978-1-4422-0028-9 .
Davis, David Brion (1999) [1975].
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
9780195126716 . National Book Award for History and Biography, 1976
[15]
Egerton, Douglas R. (2009).
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-530669-9 .
Kaplan, Sidney (1973).
The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770–1800 . Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society.
ISBN
0-8212-0541-2 .
Larson, Edward J. (2023).
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-88220-9 .
Wright, Donald R. (2000) [1990].
African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution (2nd ed.). Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-88295-955-9 .
Civil War Era: 1850s—1870s
Blight, David W. (2001).
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-00332-2 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2002
[16]
Dunning, William Archibald (1910) [1897].
Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics . New York: The Macmillan Company.
Freehling, William W. (2007) [1990].
The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-505814-7 .
—— (2007) [1990].
The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumph . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-505815-4 .
Litwack, Leon (1979).
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
ISBN
978-0394743981 . National Book Award for History (paperback), 1981;
[17] Pulitzer Prize for History,1980
[18]
Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr. (2020).
It Wasn't About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War . New York: Simon and Schuster.
ISBN
9781621578765 .
Oates, Stephen B. (1997).
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 . New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
ISBN
0-06-01 6784-X .
Potter, David M. (1976).
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 . New York: Harper & Row.
ISBN
0-06-013403-8 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 1977
[19]
Sewell, Richard H. (1988).
A House Divided: Sectionalism and the Civil War, 1848-1865 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
0-8018-3531-3 .
Reconstruction/Jim Crow Eras: 1870s—1965
Biographies
David W. Blight 's 2018 biography of abolitionist
Frederick Douglass won the
Pulitzer Prize for History .
[20]
Alford, Terry (1977).
Prince among Slaves . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-504223-9 .
Andrews, William L. (1986).
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-01222-4 .
Ball, Edward (1998).
Slaves in the Family . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
ISBN
0-374-26582-8 . National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1998
[21]
Bell, Malcolm Jr. (1987).
Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
0-8203-0897-8 .
Betts, Robert B. (2000) [1985].
In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark . Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.
ISBN
0-87081-618-7 .
Blight, David W. (2020) [2018].
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom . New York: Simon & Schuster.
ISBN
9781416590316 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 2019;
[20] Bancroft Prize for American History, 2019
[22]
Bradford, Sarah H. (1981) [1961].
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
ISBN
0-8446-1717-2 .
Braxton, Joanne, ed. (1989).
Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition . Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
ISBN
0-87722-639-3 .
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller (1981) [1905].
Woodward, C. Vann (ed.).
Mary Chesnut's Civil War . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-02459-2 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 1982
[23]
Collison, Gary (1997).
Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0-674-80298-5 .
Egerton, Douglas R. Egerton (1999).
He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey . Madison, WI: Madison House.
ISBN
0-945612-67-2 .
Faust, Drew Gilpin (1982).
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8071-1048-5 .
Foner , ed. (1971).
Nat Turner . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
ISBN
013-933143-3 .
Gordon-Reed, Annette (1997).
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
0-8139-1698-4 .
—— (2008).
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-06477-3 . National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2008
[24]
Hanks, Stephen (2019).
Twenty Africans: Their Story, and Discovery of Their Black, Red, & White Descendants . Portland, OR: Inkwater Press.
ISBN
978-1629016573 .
Hinks, Peter P. (1997).
To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
ISBN
0-271-01578-0 .
Hurston, Zora Neale (2018).
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" . New York: HarperCollins.
ISBN
9780062748225 .
Johnson, Michael P. (1984).
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-30314-4 .
Lewis, David Levering (1993).
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race . New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-8050-2621-5 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1994
[25]
Logan, Rayford W. ; Winston, Michael R., eds. (1982).
Dictionary of American Negro Biography . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-01513-0 .
McFeely, William S. (1991).
Frederick Douglass . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-31376-X .
McGinty, Brian (2017).
The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave . New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.
ISBN
978-1-63149-301-0 .
Oates, Stephen B. (1984) [1970].
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown . Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press.
ISBN
0-87023-458-7 .
Pease, Jane H.; Pease, William H. (1972).
Bound with Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc.
ISBN
0-8371-6265-3 .
Rediker, Marcus (2017).
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist . London: Verso Books.
ISBN
978-1-78663-472-6 .
Rhodes, Jane (1999) [1998].
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0-253-33446-2 .
Rosengarten, Theodore (1974).
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
ISBN
0-394-49084-3 .
—— (1987).
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, with the Plantation Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
ISBN
0-07-053821-2 .
Schweninger, Loren (1984).
From Tennessee Slave to St. Louis Entrepreneur: The Autobiography of James Thomas . Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
ISBN
9780826204318 .
Stauffer, John (2008).
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln . New York: Twelve.
ISBN
978-0-446-54300-2 .
Sterling, Dorothy (1958).
Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls . Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
—— (1971).
The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885 . Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling (2012).
A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons . New York: St. Martin's Press.
ISBN
978-1137000187 .
Thomas, Lamont D. (1986).
Rise to Be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-01212-7 .
Thompson, Mack (1962).
Moses Brown, Reluctant Reformer . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Washington, Booker T. (2003) [1901].
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (ed.).
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography . Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.
ISBN
0-312-39448-9 .
Whitten, David O. (1981).
Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in Antebellum Louisiana . Natchitoches, LA: Northwestern State University Press.
ISBN
0917898-06-0 .
Essay collections
The following collections explore either related topics or a range of issues tied to slavery. Many of the essays are by leading scholars on the subject.
Adams, Herbert B. , ed. (1969) [1893-1914].
Slavery in the States: Selected Essays . New York: Negro Universities Press.
ISBN
9780837120850 .
Aptheker, Herbert (1964).
Essays in the History of the American Negro . New York: International Publishers, Inc.
ISBN
9780717800612 .
Cooper, Frederick ;
Scott, Rebecca J. ;
Holt, Thomas C. (2000).
Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2541-7 .
Countryman, Edward , ed. (1999).
How Did American Slavery Begin?: Readings . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
ISBN
0-312-18261-9 .
Engerman, Stanley L. ;
Genovese, Eugene D. , eds. (1975).
Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-10024-1 .
Engerman, Stanley Lewis (1999).
Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8047-3521-6 .
Fredrickson, George M. (1988).
The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
ISBN
0-8195-5177-5 .
Freehling, William W. (1994).
The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-508807-7 .
Gispen, Kees (1990).
What Made the South Different?: Essays and Comments . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
0-87805-454-5 .
Nash, Gary B. ; Weiss, Richard, eds. (1970).
The Great Fear: Race in the Mind of America . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
ISBN
9780030852701 .
Newton, James E.; Lewis, Ronald L., eds. (1978).
The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans, and Craftsmen . Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.
ISBN
0-8161-8102-0 .
Palmer, Colin A. , ed. (1998).
The Worlds of Unfree Labour: From Indentured Servitude to Slavery . Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.
ISBN
0-86078-515-7 .
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell (1968).
Genovese, Eugene D. (ed.).
The Slave Economy of the Old South: Selected Essays in Economic and Social History . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
Sansing, David G. (1978).
What Was Freedom's Price?: Essays . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
0-87805-046-9 .
Tate, Thad W.; Ammerman, David, eds. (1979).
The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-00956-4 .
Weinstein, Allen ; Gatell, Frank Otto; Sarasohn, David, eds. (1979) [1968].
American Negro Slavery: A Modern Reader . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502470-2 .
Woodward, C. Vann (1993) [1960].
The Burden of Southern History . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-1894-X .
Encyclopedias
Topics
Abolition/anti-slavery
Proslavery arguments held that blacks were incapable of caring for themselves.
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Aptheker, Herbert (1968) [1948].
To Be Free: Studies in American Negro History . New York: International Publishers Co., Inc.
—— (1989).
Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement . Boston: Twayne Publishers.
ISBN
0-8057-9702-5 .
Barnes, Gilbert Hobbs (1957) [1933].
The Antislavery Impulse, 1830—1844 . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
Blackburn, Robin (1988).
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery . New York: Verso.
ISBN
0-86091-188-8 .
Blackett, R.J.M. (1983).
Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-1082-5 .
Blackmon, Douglas A. (2008).
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II . New York: Doubleday.
ISBN
978-0-385-50625-0 .
Bruns, Roger , ed. (1977).
Am I Not a Man and a Brother: The Antislavery Crusade of Revolutionary America . New York: Chelsea House.
ISBN
0-87754-035-7 .
Coddon, Karin (2004).
Black Abolitionists . Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.
ISBN
0-7377-1711-4 .
Colman, Julia; Thompson, Matilda G. (1859).
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life . New York: Carlton & Porter.
Cutter, Martha J. (2017).
The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852 . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
9780820351162 .
Davis, David Brion (1970) [1966].
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture . London: Pelican Books.
—— (2015) [2014].
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation . New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
ISBN
9780307389695 . National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2014
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Dillon, Merton L. (1974).
The Abolitionists: The Growth of a Dissenting Minority . DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
ISBN
0-87580-044-0 .
Dottin, Paul Anthony (2002).
The End of Race as We Know It: Slavery, Segregation, and the African American Quest for Redress . Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.
ISBN
9780493912769 .
Dumond, Dwight Lowell (1966) [1961].
Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Foner, Eric (2016).
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-18137-1 .
Gellman, David Nathaniel (2006).
Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827 . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University.
ISBN
978-0-8071-3174-9 .
Goodell, William (1844).
Views of American Constitutional Law in Its Bearing Upon American Slavery . Utica, NY: Jackson & Chaplin.
Grover, Kathryn (2001).
The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford . Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
ISBN
1-55849-271-2 .
Hammond, John Craig; Mason, Matthew, eds. (2011).
Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
978-0-8139-3105-0 .
Harrold, Stanley. American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction (U of Virginia Press, 2019)
online .
Harrold, Stanley (2001).
American Abolitionists . New York: Longman.
ISBN
0-582-35738-1 .
Hinks, Peter; McKivigan, John, eds. (2015).
Abolition and Antislavery: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic . Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, LLC.
ISBN
978-1-61069-827-6 .
Hochschild, Adam (2005).
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
ISBN
0-618-10469-0 .
Kraditor, Aileen S. (1969) [1967].
Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850 . Chicago: Vintage Books.
ISBN
9780394708492 .
Locke, Mary Stoughton (1965) [1901].
Anti-Slavery in America, from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibition of the Slave Trade . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
Mathews, Donald G., ed. (1972).
Agitation for Freedom: The Abolitionist Movement . New York: John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
0-471-57623-9 .
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick;
Stauffer, John , eds. (2006).
Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism . New York: New Press.
ISBN
978-1-56584-992-1 .
McKivigan, John R., ed. (1999).
Abolitionism and American Law . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
ISBN
0-8153-3109-6 .
McPherson, James M. (1975).
The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-04637-9 .
—— (1995).
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
978-0691005553 .
Moore, Wilbert E. (1971).
American Negro Slavery and Abolition: A Sociological Study . New York: The Third Press.
Morgan, Edmund S. (1995) [1975].
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-31288-7 .
Mullin, Michael, ed. (1976).
American Negro Slavery: A Documentary History . Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-87249-339-3 .
Nellis, Eric Guest (2013).
Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 . New York: University of Toronto Press, Inc.
ISBN
978-1-4426-0764-4 .
Newman, Richard ; Rael, Patrick; Lapsansky, Philip, eds. (2001).
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 . New York: Routledge.
ISBN
0-415-92443-X .
O'Brien, James Bronterre (1885).
The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came into the World and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out . London: William Reeves.
Oakes, James (2007).
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-06194-9 .
—— (2013).
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-06531-2 .
—— (2014).
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-23993-5 .
—— (2021).
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
9781324005865 .
Pease, Jane H.; Pease, William H. (1972).
Bound with Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc.
ISBN
0-8371-6265-3 .
Perry, Lewis (1973).
Radical Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
0-8014-0754-0 .
—— (1981) [1979].
Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-0479-5 .
Quarles, Benjamin (1972) [1969].
Black Abolitionists . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-500804-9 .
Rael, Patrick (2015).
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 . Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
978-0-8203-3395-3 .
Rhodes, Jane (1999) [1998].
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0-253-33446-2 .
Ripley, C. Peter (1985).
The Black Abolitionist Papers, Volume I: The British Isles, 1830-1865 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-1625-6 . 1st of 5 volumes
—— (1985).
The Black Abolitionist Papers, Volume II: Canada, 1830-1865 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-1698-1 . 2nd of 5 volumes
——, ed. (2015) [2007].
Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, Vols. 1-3 . New York: Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-7656-1257-1 .
Root, Erik S. (2008).
All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good Thesis . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
ISBN
978-0-7391-2217-4 .
Scott, John Anthony (1978) [1974].
Hard Trials on My Way: Slavery and the Struggle Against It, 1800-1860 . New York: New American Library.
ISBN
0-3948-2045-2 .
Senior, Nassau William (1856).
American Slavery . London: T. Fellowes.
Sewell, Richard H. (1965).
John P. Hale and the Politics of Abolition . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
9780674433243 .
—— (1976).
Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780393009668 .
Sinha, Manisha (2016).
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-18208-8 . Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish (2000).
Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870 . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
ISBN
0-312-10144-9 .
Stewart, James Brewer (1976).
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery . New York: Hill and Wang.
ISBN
0-8090-5519-8 .
Striner, Richard (2006).
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-518306-1 .
Thompson, Mack (1962).
Moses Brown, Reluctant Reformer . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Thurston, Richard Bowers; Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden; Williston, Timothy (1857).
Three Prize Essays on American Slavery . Boston: Congregational Board of Publications.
Vorenberg, Michael (2001).
Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-65267-7 .
Walters, Ronald G. (1984) [1978].
The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
0-393-95444-7 .
Wiecek, William M. (1977).
The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760–1848 . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
0-8014-1089-4 .
Wilentz, Sean (2018).
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
9780674972223 .
Winch, Julie (2016).
Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN
978-0-7425-5114-5 .
Yellin, Jean Fagan (1994).
The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
0-8014-2728-2 .
Zdrok-Ptaszek, Jodie, ed. (2002).
The Anti-Slavery Movement . San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press.
ISBN
0-7377-1047-0 .
Zilversmit, Arthur (1967).
The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Agriculture/plantations
Armstead, Myra Beth Young (2012).
Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America . New York: New York University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8147-0510-0 .
Ball, Edward (1998).
Slaves in the Family . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
ISBN
0-374-26582-8 .
Beckert, Sven (2014).
Empire of Cotton: A Global History . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN
978-0-375-41414-5 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2015
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Bell, Malcolm Jr. (1987).
Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
0-8203-0897-8 .
Berlin, Ira ;
Morgan, Philip D. (1993).
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas . Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
ISBN
0-8139-1421-3 .
Berry, Daina Ramey (2010).
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
978-0-252-03146-5 .
Blassingame, John Wesley (1979).
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502562-8 .
Bowman, Shearer Davis (1993).
Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-505281-1 .
Bruce, Philip Alexander (1907).
Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Higher Planting Class, Together with an Account of the Habits, Customs, and Diversions of the People . Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson.
Carney, Judith A.; Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas (2009).
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-25750-4 .
Clarke, Erskine (2005).
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-10867-2 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2006
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Dunn, Richard S. (1973).
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-00692-1 .
Easterby, J.H., ed. (1945).
The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (1988).
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-1808-9 .
Genovese, Eugene D. (1971) [1969].
The World the Slaveholders Made . New York: Vintage Books.
Glymph, Thavolia (2008).
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-87901-9 .
Gray, Lewis Cecil (1958) [1933].
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, Vol. 1 . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
—— (1958) [1933].
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, Vol. 2 . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
Johnson, Walter (2013).
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
978-0-674-04555-2 .
King, Wilma (1997) [1995].
Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0-253-32904-3 .
Kulikoff, Allan (1986).
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800 . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-1671-X .
—— (1992).
The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
0-8139-1388-8 .
Littlefield, Daniel C. (1981).
Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-0794-8 .
Main, Gloria L. (1982).
Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-04693-X .
Morgan, Lynda J. (1992).
Emancipation in Virginia's Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870 . Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
0-8203-1415-3 .
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell (1918).
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime . New York: D. Appleton and Co.
Reidy, Joseph P. (1992).
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South, Central Georgia, 1800–1880 . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2061-X .
Scarborough, William Kauffman (1966).
The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
Small, Stephen; Eichstedt, Jennifer (2002).
Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
ISBN
1-58834-071-6 .
Smith, Julia Floyd (1973).
Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821–1860 . Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
ISBN
0-8130-0323-7 .
Smith, Mark M. (1997).
Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2344-9 .
Vincent, Stephen A. (1999).
Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900 . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0-253-33577-9 .
Vlach, John Michael (1993).
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2085-7 .
Walsh, Lorena S. (2010).
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia).
ISBN
978-0-8078-3234-9 .
Wright, Gavin (1978).
The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-05686-4 .
Yafa, Stephen (2005).
Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map . Viking.
ISBN
0-670-03367-7 .
Constitution/law
Allain, Jean (2012).
The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780199660469 .
Belz, Herman (1978).
Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-05692-9 .
Bogues, Anthony ; Cliatt, Cass; Levy, Allison, eds. (2021) [2006].
Slavery and Justice Report (PDF) . Providence, RI: Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
Brandon, Mark E. (1998).
Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-01581-3 .
Brewster, Francis E. (1850).
Slavery and the Constitution. Both Sides of the Question . Philadelphia: unknown publisher.
Campbell, James M. (2013).
Crime and Punishment in African American History . New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-230-27380-1 .
Fede, Andrew (1992).
People Without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
ISBN
0-8153-0894-9 .
Fehrenbacher, Don E. (1978).
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502403-6 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 1979
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—— (1981).
Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502882-1 .
Finkelman, Paul (1981).
An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-1438-5 .
—— (1997).
Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents . Boston: Bedford Books.
ISBN
0-312-12807-X .
——, ed. (2002).
Slavery & The Law . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN
0-945612-36-2 .
Goldstone, Lawrence (2005).
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution . New York: Walker & Company.
ISBN
0-8027-1460-9 .
Goldwin, Robert A. ; Kaufman, Art, eds. (1988).
Slavery and Its Consequences: The Constitution, Equality, and Race . Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
ISBN
0-8447-3649-X .
Harris, J. William (2009).
The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-15214-2 .
Higginbotham, A. Leon (1978).
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502387-0 .
Howard, Warren S. (1963).
American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862 . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Lynd, Staughton , ed. (1968).
Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution: Ten Essays . Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill.
Morris, Thomas D. (1974).
Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1860 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
9781584771074 .
—— (1996).
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-4817-4 .
Tsesis, Alexander (2004).
The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History . New York: New York University Press.
ISBN
0-8147-8276-0 .
—— (2008).
We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-11837-7 .
Tushnet, Mark V. (1981).
The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanity and Interest . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
978-0-691-65702-8 .
Van Cleve, George William (2010).
A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
978-0-226-84668-2 .
Wiecek, William M. (1977).
The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760–1848 . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
0-8014-1089-4 .
Economics/capitalism
Aitken, Hugh G.J., ed. (1971).
Did Slavery Pay?: Readings in the Economics of Slavery in the United States . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
ISBN
9780395112373 .
Ashworth, John (1995).
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-47487-6 .
Bales, Kevin (1999).
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
ISBN
0-520-21797-7 .
Bateman, Fred ; Weiss, Thomas (1980).
A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-1447-4 .
—— (2014).
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . New York: Basic Books.
ISBN
978-0-465-00296-2 .
——;
Rockman, Seth , eds. (2016).
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
ISBN
978-0-8122-4841-8 .
Berlin, Ira ;
Morgan, Philip D. (1991).
The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas . Portland, OR: Frank Cass.
ISBN
0-7146-3436-0 .
Bruce, Philip Alexander (1935) [1895].
Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I . New York: The Macmillan Company.
—— (1935) [1895].
Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Volume II . New York: The Macmillan Company.
Conrad, Alfred H. ;
Meyer, John R. (1964).
The Economics of Slavery, and Other Studies in Econometric History . Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company.
Fogel, Robert William ;
Engerman, Stanley L. (1995).
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-31218-6 .
Galenson, David W. (1981).
White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-23686-X .
Genovese, Eugene D. (1966) [1961].
The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South . New York: Pantheon Books.
——;
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (1983).
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-503157-1 .
Gutman, Herbert George (1975).
Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-00564-3 .
Hudson, Larry E. Jr. (1994).
Working toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South . Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
ISBN
1-878822-37-3 .
Huston, James L. (2003).
Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2804-1 .
—— (1992).
The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
0-8139-1388-8 .
Kranz, Rachel (2004).
African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs . New York: Facts On File, Inc.
ISBN
0-8160-5101-1 .
Marable, Manning (1983).
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society . Boston: South End Press.
ISBN
0-89608-165-6 .
McCusker, John J. ;
Menard, Russell R. (1985).
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture).
ISBN
0-8078-1635-3 .
McGlynn, Frank;
Drescher, Seymour (1992).
The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
ISBN
0-8229-3695-X .
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell (1968).
Genovese, Eugene D. (ed.).
The Slave Economy of the Old South: Selected Essays in Economic and Social History . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
Reidy, Joseph P. (1992).
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South, Central Georgia, 1800–1880 . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2061-X .
Satre, Lowell J. (2005).
Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
ISBN
0-8214-1625-1 .
Schermerhorn, Jack Lawrence; Schermerhorn, Calvin (2015).
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-19200-1 .
Williams, Eric Eustace (1966).
Capitalism and Slavery . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
ISBN
9780399500398 .
Wright, Gavin (1978).
The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-05686-4 .
—— (2006).
Slavery and American Economic Development . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8071-3183-1 .
Emancipation/freedom
Arnold, Isaac Newton (1867).
The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery . Chicago: Clarke & Co., Publishers.
Ayers, Edward L. (2017).
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-29263-3 .
Bennett, Lerone Jr. (2007) [1999].
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream . Chicago: Johnson Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-87485-085-7 .
Berlin, Ira ; Hoffman, Ronald, eds. (1983).
Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution . Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
ISBN
0-8139-0969-4 .
—— (1992) [1974].
Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South . New York: The New Press.
ISBN
1-56584-028-3 .
——;
Fields, Barbara J. ; Miller, Steven F.;
Reidy, Joseph P. ; Rowland, Leslie S. (1992).
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War . New York: The New Press.
ISBN
1-56584-015-1 .
——; ——; ——; ——; —— (1992).
Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-43102-6 .
Blackburn, Robin (2011).
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights . London; New York: Verso.
ISBN
978-1-84467-569-2 .
Blair, William A.; Younger, Karen Fisher, eds. (2009).
Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
978-0-8078-3316-2 .
Brewster, Todd (2014).
Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War . New York: Scribner.
ISBN
978-1-4516-9386-7 .
Bruce, Philip Alexander (1889).
The Plantation Negro as a Freeman: Observations on His Character, Condition, and Prospects in Virginia . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Carnahan, Burrus M. (2007).
Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War . Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
978-0-8131-2463-6 .
Cohen, David William ;
Greene, Jack P. , eds. (1974).
Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
0-8018-1374-3 .
Duncan, Russell (1986).
Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
0-8203-0876-5 .
Durden, Robert F. (1972).
The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-0244-X .
Engerman, Stanley L. (2007).
Slavery, Emancipation & Freedom: Comparative Perspectives . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8071-3236-4 .
Fields, Barbara J. (1985).
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-02340-5 .
Foner, Eric ;
Brown, Joshua (2005).
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN
0-375-40259-4 .
—— (2010).
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-06618-0 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2011;
[31] Pulitzer Prize for History, 2011
[32]
Gerteis, Louis S. (1973).
From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks, 1861-1865 . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0-19-507681-8 .
Guelzo, Allen C. (2004).
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America . New York: Simon & Schuster.
ISBN
0-7432-2182-6 .
Halpern, Rick; Dal Lago, Enrico, eds. (2002).
Slavery and Emancipation . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISBN
0-631-21734-7 .
Hanger, Kimberly S. (2006) [1997].
Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
ISBN
0-8223-1906-3 .
Harding, Vincent (1981).
There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
ISBN
0-15-689089-5 .
Hashaw, Tim (2007).
The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown . New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
ISBN
978-0-7867-1718-7 .
Holzer, Harold (2012).
Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America . New York: Newmarket Press for ItBooks.
ISBN
978-0-06-226511-1 .
—— (2015).
A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American Opportunity . New York: Basic Books.
ISBN
978-0-465-02830-6 .
Horton, James O. ; Horton, Lois (1999) [1979].
Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North . New York: Holmes & Meir.
ISBN
0-8419-1379-X .
—— (1997).
In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-504732-X .
Howard, Victor B. (1983).
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1864 . Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
0-8131-1433-0 .
Johnson, Michael P. (1984).
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-30314-4 .
Jones, Howard (1999).
Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War . Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
ISBN
0-8032-2582-2 .
Kachun, Mitch (2003).
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915 . Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
ISBN
1-55849-407-3 .
Larson, Edward J. (2023).
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-88220-9 .
Levine, Lawrence W. (2007) [1977].
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-530569-2 .
Litwack, Leon F. (1961).
North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790–1860 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
9780226485850 .
Long, David E. (1994).
The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-Election and the End of Slavery . Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books.
ISBN
978-0-8117-3441-7 .
Morgan, Edmund S. (1995) [1975].
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-31288-7 .
Nash, Gary B. ; Soderlund, Jean R. (1991).
Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-504583-1 .
Oakes, James (1990).
Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
ISBN
0-394-53677-0 .
Patterson, Orlando (1991).
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture . New York: Basic Books.
Proenza-Coles, Christina (2019).
American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World . Montgomery, AL: New South Books.
ISBN
9781588383310 .
Reidy, Joseph P. (2019).
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
9781469648378 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2020
[33]
Ripley, C. Peter (1976).
Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-0187-7 .
Roberts, John W. (1989).
From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
ISBN
0-8122-8141-1 .
Rodriguez, Junius P. , ed. (2015) [2007].
Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, Vols. 1-3 . New York: Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-7656-1257-1 .
Rugemer, Edward Bartlett (2008).
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8071-3338-5 .
Sansing, David G. (1978).
What Was Freedom's Price?: Essays . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
0-87805-046-9 .
Schweninger, Loren (1997).
Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-01678-5 .
Sherrard, Owen Aubrey (1973).
Freedom from Fear: The Slave and His Emancipation . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0-8371-7024-9 .
Smith, Elbert B. (1967).
The Death of Slavery: The United States, 1837-65 . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Smith, Mark M. (1997).
Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2344-9 .
Zilversmit, Arthur (1967).
The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Government/politics
Anbinder, Tyler (1992).
Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-507233-2 .
Ashworth, John (1995).
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-47487-6 .
Baker, Jean H. (1984).
Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Mid-Nineteenth Century Democrats . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
0-8014-1513-6 .
Belz, Herman (1978).
Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-05692-9 .
Berwanger, Eugene H. (1967).
The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
——;
Simpson, Brooks D. (2007) [1997].
Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era . Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-87338-951-8 .
Brady, Steven J. (2022).
Chained to History: Slavery and U.S. Foreign Relations to 1865 . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
9781501761058 .
Bynum, Victoria E. (1992).
Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0-8078-2016-4 .
Childers, Christopher (2012).
The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
ISBN
978-0-7006-1868-2 .
Cowie, Jefferson (2022).
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power . New York: Basic Books.
ISBN
9781541672819 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 2023
[34]
Fehrenbacher, Don E. (1978).
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502403-6 . Pulitzer Prize for History, 1979
[30]
Finkelman, Paul (2010).
In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (for the United States Capitol Historical Society).
ISBN
978-0-8214-1934-2 .
Foner, Eric (1995) [1970].
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-501352-2 .
—— (1980).
Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-502781-7 .
Freehling, Alice Goodyear (1982).
Drift Toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832 . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-1035-3 .
Holt, Michael (1983) [1978].
The Political Crisis of the 1850s . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-95370-X .
—— (1968).
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism . New York: Pantheon Books.
Mason, Matthew (2006).
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
978-0-8078-3049-9 .
McGlynn, Frank;
Drescher, Seymour (1992).
The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
ISBN
0-8229-3695-X .
Miller, William Lee (1996) [1995].
Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
ISBN
0-394-56922-9 .
Nagel, Paul C. (1964).
One Nation Indivisible: The Union in American Thought, 1776-1861 . New York: Oxford University Press.
Robinson, Donald L. (1970).
Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765–1820 . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
ISBN
0-15-182972-1 .
Sewell, Richard H. (1965).
John P. Hale and the Politics of Abolition . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
9780674433243 .
—— (1976).
Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780393009668 .
Silbey, Joel H. (1985).
The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics Before the Civil War . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-503551-8 .
Smith, William Henry (1903).
A Political History of Slavery: Being an Account of the Slavery Controversy from the Earliest Agitation in the Eighteenth Century to the Close of the Reconstruction Period in America . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Material culture
Katz-Hyman, Martha B.; Rice, Kym S., eds. (2010). World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States . Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
ISBN
978-0-313-34942-3 .
McGill, Joseph Jr.; Frazier, Herb (2023). Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery . New York: Hachette Books.
ISBN
9780306829666 .
Vlach, John Michael (1991). By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife . Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
ISBN
978-0-8139-1366-7 .
Native Americans
Craven, Wesley Frank (1971).
White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian . Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia.
ISBN
0-8139-0372-6 .
Gallay, Alan (2002).
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-08754-3 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2003
[35]
Halliburton, R. Jr. (1977).
Red over Black: Black Slavery among the Cherokee Indians . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0-8371-9034-7 .
Katz, William Loren (1997) [1986].
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage . New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster.
ISBN
978-1442446373 .
Lauber, Almon Wheeler (1913).
Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States . Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law. Vol. 54. New York: Columbia University.
Littlefield, Daniel F. Jr. (1977).
Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0-8371-9529-2 .
Lopenzina, Drew (2012).
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
ISBN
978-1-4384-3979-2 .
—— (2017).
Through an Indian's Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot . Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
ISBN
9781625342584 .
Minges, Patrick N. (2003).
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855–1867 . New York: Routledge.
ISBN
0-415-94586-0 .
Mulroy, Kevin (2016).
The Seminole Freedmen: A History . Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
ISBN
978-0-8061-3865-7 .
Nash, Gary B. (1974).
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
ISBN
0-13-769810-0 .
Olexer, Barbara (2005) [1982].
The Enslavement of the American Indian in Colonial Times . Columbia, MD: Joyous Publishing.
ISBN
0-9722740-4-9 .
Perdue, Theda (1979).
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540–1866 . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
ISBN
978-0870495304 .
Reséndez, Andrés (2016).
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America . New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN
978-0544947108 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2017
[36]
Roundtree, Helen (2006).
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
978-0-8139-2596-7 .
Snyder, Christina (2010).
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
978-0-674-04890-4 .
Sturm, Circe (2002).
Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-23097-2 .
Wasserman, Adam (2010) [2009].
A People's History of Florida 1513–1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State . Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
ISBN
978-1-4421670-9-4 .
Yarbrough, Fay A. (2008).
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
ISBN
978-0-8122-4056-6 .
Proslavery
Ambrose, Douglas (1997).
Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-2080-4 .
Faust, Drew Gilpin , ed. (1981).
Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 . Baton Rouge, LA: University of Louisiana Press.
ISBN
0-8071-0855-3 .
Jenkins, William Sumner (1960).
Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
McKitrick, Eric L. , ed. (1963).
Slavery Defended: The Views of the Old South . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Smith, John David (1985).
An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918 . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0-313-23648-8 .
Tise, Larry E. (1987).
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 . Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
0-8203-0927-3 .
Race/racism
Arthur, John (2007).
Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-87937-8 .
Berwanger, Eugene H. (1967).
The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Blight, David W. ;
Simpson, Brooks D. (2007) [1997].
Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era . Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
ISBN
978-0-87338-951-8 .
Breen, T.H. ; Innes, Stephen (1980).
'Myne Owne Ground': Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-503206-3 .
Brown, Kathleen M. (1996).
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia).
ISBN
0-8078-2307-4 .
Bruce, Dickson (2001).
The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
0-8139-2066-3 .
Byrd, W. Michael; Clayton, Linda A. (2000).
An American Health Dilemma, Volume I: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, Beginnings to 1900 . New York: Routledge.
ISBN
0-415-92449-9 .
——; —— (2002).
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Kendi, Ibram X. (2016).
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Morgan, Marcyliena (2002).
Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture . New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Sommerville, Diane Miller (2004).
Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals . New York: Encounter Books.
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Strauss, Jill; Ford, Dionne; LaNier, Shannon; Westrick, A.B. (2019).
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Washington, Booker T. (1909).
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Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
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Wilder, Craig Steven (2013).
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Wilkins, Carolyn M. (2010).
Damn Near White: An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success . Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
ISBN
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Williamson, Joel (1980).
New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States . New York: Free Press.
ISBN
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—— (1984).
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Woodward, C. Vann (1971).
American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North-South Dialogue . Boston: Little, Brown & Company.
—— (1971).
American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North-South Dialogue . Boston: Little, Brown & Company.
Slave trade
Engraving of a slave auction in the Southern United States.
Araujo, Ana Lucia (2017).
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History . Bloomsbury.
ISBN
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Bailyn, Bernard (1986).
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Blake, W.O. (1859) [1857].
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Bracey, John H. Jr. ;
Sinha, Manisha (2004).
African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century, Volume One: To 1877 . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
ISBN
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Burnside, Madeleine; Robotham, Rosemarie (1997).
Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century . Key West, FL: Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society.
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Coughtry, Jay (1981).
The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700–1807 . Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
ISBN
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Curtin, Philip D. (1969).
The Atlantic Slave: A Census . Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Dew, Charles B. (2016).
The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
ISBN
9780813938875 .
Diedrich, Maria;
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. ; Pedersen, Carl, eds. (1999).
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Diène, Doudou , ed. (2001).
From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited . New York: Berghahn Book.
ISBN
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Domingues da Silva, Daniel B. (2017).
The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 . New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Dow, George Francis (1968) [1927].
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Gomez, Michael (2005).
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Grindal, Peter (2016).
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Horne, Gerald (2007).
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade . New York: New York University Press.
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Inikori, J.E.;
Engerman, Stanley L. , eds. (1992).
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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Johnson, Walter (1999).
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Linebaugh, Peter ;
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ISBN
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Littlefield, Daniel C. (1981).
Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
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Locke, Mary Stoughton (1965) [1901].
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Mannix, Daniel P. ;
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Martínez, Jenny S. (2012).
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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O'Malley, Gregory E. (2014).
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia).
ISBN
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Pope-Hennessy, James (1968).
Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807 . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Rawley, James A. (1981).
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Rediker, Marcus B. (2007).
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ISBN
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Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail . Boston: Beacon Press.
ISBN
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Reynolds, Edward (1985).
Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade . New York: Allison & Busby.
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Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
ISBN
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Schafer, Daniel L. (2013).
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
ISBN
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Smallwood, Stephanie E. (2007).
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to the American Diaspora . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
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Tadman, Michael (1989).
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South . Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
ISBN
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ISBN
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Religion
Drake, Thomas E. (1965) [1950].
Quakers and Slavery in America . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
George, Carol V.R. (1973).
Segregated Sabbaths; Richard Allen and the Emergence of Independent Black Churches 1760–1840 . New York: Oxford University Press.
Martin, Joan M. (2000).
More Than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women . Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.
ISBN
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Stark, Rodney (2003).
For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-hunts, and the End of Slavery . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
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Rebellions/resistance
Aptheker, Herbert (1945) [1943].
American Negro Slave Revolts . New York: Columbia University Press.
—— (1966).
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, Together with the Full Text of the So-called 'Confessions' of Nat Turner Made in Prison in 1831 . New York: Humanities Press, Inc.
Bell, Karen Cook (2021).
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America . New York: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
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Blight, David W. (2007).
Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom: Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN
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Boritt, Gabor S. ; Hancock, Scott (2007).
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Bracey, John Jr. ;
Meier, August ;
Rudwick, Elliott , eds. (1971).
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ISBN
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Bynum, Victoria E. (2016) [2001].
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
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Campbell, Stanley W. (1970) [1968].
The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860 . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
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Clavin, Matthew J. (2019).
The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community . New York: New York University Press.
ISBN
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Daly, John Patrick (2002).
When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War . Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
0-8131-2241-4 .
Davis, Thomas J. (1990).
A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York . Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
ISBN
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Dunbar, Erica Armstrong (2017).
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge . New York: 37 Ink/Atria.
ISBN
978-1-5011-2639-0 .
Franklin, John Hope ;
Schweninger, Loren (1999).
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Frey, Sylvia R. (1991).
Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
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Genovese, Eugene D. (1979).
From Rebellion to Revolution: African-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the New World . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
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Grandin, Greg (2014).
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World . New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company.
ISBN
978-1-4299-4317-8 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 2015
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Hinks, Peter P. (1997).
To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
ISBN
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Hoffer, Peter Charles (2003).
The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law . Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
ISBN
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Johnson, Mat (2007).
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York . New York: Bloomsbury USA.
ISBN
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Jones, Howard (1987).
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Amistad
Jordan, Winthrop D. (1995) [1993].
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
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Kly, Yussuf Naim, ed. (2006).
The Invisible War: The African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars . Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, Inc.
ISBN
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Maltz, Earl M. (2010).
Fugitive Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage . Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
ISBN
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Mullin, Gerald W. (1972).
Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia . New York: Oxford University Press.
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Oates, Stephen B. (1990) [1975].
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ISBN
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Pargas, Damian Alan, ed. (2018).
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
ISBN
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Price, Richard (1996) [1973].
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN
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Rasmussen, Daniel (2011).
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt . New York: HarperCollins.
ISBN
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Rediker, Marcus (2012).
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom . New York: Viking.
ISBN
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Rucker, Walter C. (2006).
The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
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Sale, Maggie Montesinos (1997).
The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
ISBN
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Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (1900).
John Brown and His Friends . Middebury, VT: Pamphlet from Abernethy Collection of American Literature, Middlebury College.
JSTOR
28478314 .
Schama, Simon (2006).
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution . New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
ISBN
978-0-06-053916-0 . National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2006
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Underground railroad
Blight, David W. , ed. (2004).
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books.
ISBN
1-58834-157-7 .
Buckmaster, Henrietta (1969) [1941]. Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement . Boston: Beacon Press.
Foner, Eric (2015).
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-393-35219-1 .
Hudson, J. Blaine (2006).
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
ISBN
978-0-7864-2459-7 .
Pettit, Eber M. (1999) [1879].
Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad . Westfield, NY: Chautauqua Region Press.
ISBN
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Siebert, Wilbur H. (1968) [1898].
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
Smedley, R.C. (1883).
History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania . Lancaster, PA: Office of the Journal.
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2008).
The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations, Vol. 1 . Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
ISBN
978-0-7656-8093-8 .
Still, William (1872).
The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc . Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
Strother, Horatio T. (1962).
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Women
Woman whipping slave girl.
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Adams, Catherine; Pleck, Elizabeth (2010).
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Braxton, Joanne, ed. (1989).
Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition . Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
ISBN
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Bynum, Victoria E. (1992).
Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
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Campbell, Gwyn; Elbourne, Elizabeth, eds. (2014).
Sex, Power, and Slavery . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
ISBN
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Faust, Drew Gilpin, ed. (1996).
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
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Foster, Thomas (2019).
Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men . Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
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Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (1988).
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
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Frederickson, Mary E.; Walters, Delores M. (2013).
Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
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Gaspar, David Barry; Hine, Darlene Clark (1996).
More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
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Hine, Darlene Clark ;
Thompson, Kathleen (1997).
A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America . New York: Broadway Books.
ISBN
0-7679-0110-X .
Hodes, Martha (1997).
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-06970-7 .
Hunter, Tera W (1997).
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
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Johnson, Jessica Marie (2020).
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
ISBN
9780812252385 .
Jones, Jacqueline (2010) [1985].
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present . New York: Basic Books.
ISBN
978-0-465-01881-9 .
Lebsock, Susan (1985) [1984].
The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-95264-9 . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1985
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ISBN
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More Than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women . Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.
ISBN
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake . New York: Random House Publishing Group.
ISBN
9781984854995 . National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2021
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Morton, Patricia, ed. (1996).
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ISBN
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Beautiful, Also, Are the Souls of My Black Sisters: A History of the Black Woman in America . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
ISBN
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Nunley, Tamika Y. (2021).
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
9781469662213 .
Patton, Venetria K. (2000).
Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
ISBN
0-7914-4343-4 .
Pinto, Samantha (2020).
Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
ISBN
9781478009283 .
Scherer, Lester B. (1975).
Slavery and the Churches in Early America, 1619-1819 . Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
ISBN
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Schwalm, Leslie (1997).
A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina' . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-02259-9 .
Sklar, Kathryn Kish (2000).
Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870 . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
ISBN
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Smithers, Gregory D. (2012).
Slave Breeding : Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
ISBN
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Sobel, Mechal (1979).
Trabelin On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
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Soderlund, Jean R. (1985).
Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
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Sterling, Dorothy (1984).
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
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Sublette, Ned; Sublette, Constance (2016).
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry . Chicago: Chicago Review Press.
ISBN
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Weiner, Marli Frances (1997).
Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80 . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
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White, Deborah Gray (1999).
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
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Yellin, Jean Fagan (1994).
The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
ISBN
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O'Brien, James Bronterre (1885) [1842].
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Richardson, Nathaniel Smith (1864).
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Ross, Alexander Milton (1972) [1876].
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Smith, Gerrit (1844).
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Biographies/narratives
Andrews, William L.; Mason, Regina E., eds. (2008). Five Black Lives . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-534331-1 .
Andrews, William L. (2019).
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780190908393 .
Aptheker, Herbert (1966).
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Ashton, Susanna (2010).
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives . Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
ISBN
978-1-57003-900-3 .
Ball, Charles (1970) [1837].
Fifty Years in Chains (Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave) . Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
ISBN
0-486-43096-0 .
Barnwell, Marion, ed. (1997).
A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
0-87805-963-6 .
Bearse, Austin (1880).
Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston . Boston: Warren Richardson.
Berlin, Ira ; Favreau, Marc; Miller, Steven F., eds. (1998).
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom . New York: The New Press.
ISBN
9781595587633 .
Blassingame, John , ed. (1977).
Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-8071-0184-2 .
Bontemps, Arna , ed. (1969).
Great Slave Narratives . Boston: Beacon Press.
Bontemps, Arna , ed. (1971).
Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, The Rev. G.W. Offley, James L. Smith . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
ISBN
0-8195-6190-8 .
Botkin, B.A. , ed. (1945).
Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brown, William Wells (2003) [1848].
From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown . Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
ISBN
0-8262-1475-4 .
Canot, Théodore (2002) [1854].
Adventures of an African Slaver: Captain Theodore Canot . Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.
ISBN
0-486-42512-6 .
Crew, Spencer R. ;
Bunch, Lonnie G. III ; Price, Clement A., eds. (2015).
Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives . Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
ISBN
978-1-4408-3778-4 .
Davis, Charles T. (1985).
The Slave's Narrative . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-503276-4 .
Douglass, Frederick (1988) [1845].
Bloom, Harold (ed.).
Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . New York: Chelsea House.
ISBN
1-55546-014-3 .
—— (1855).
My Bondage and My Freedom . New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan.
Dresser, Amos (1836).
Narrative of Amos Dresser: With Stone's letters from Natchez, an Obituary Notice of the Writer, and Two Letters from Tallahassee, Relating to the Treatment of Slaves . New York: American Anti-Slavery Society.
Egypt, Ophelia S. ; Masuoka, J.;
Johnson, Charles S. , eds. (1945).
Unwritten History of Slavery: Autobiographical Accounts of Negro Ex-Slaves . Nashville, TN: Fisk University Press.
Equiano, Olaudah (2001).
Sollors, Werner (ed.).
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN
0-393-97494-4 .
Gilbert, Olive (1853).
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave: Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828 . New York: Edward O. Jenkins.
Holley, Sallie (1899).
Chadwick, John White (ed.).
A Life for Liberty: Anti-Slavery and Other Letters of Sallie Holley . New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Jacobs, Harriet A. ;
Griffin, Farah Jasmine (2005) [1861].
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself . Barnes & Noble Classics.
ISBN
978-1-59308-283-3 .
Jones, Thomas (1880) [1850].
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Keckley, Elizabeth (1988) [1868].
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ISBN
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Kemble, Frances Anne (1863).
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Lundy, Benjamin (1969) [1847].
The Life, Travels and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy . New York: Negro Universities Press.
ISBN
9780837121796 .
Minges, Patrick , ed. (2006).
Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery . Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher.
ISBN
978-0-89587-323-1 .
Northup, Solomon (1859) [1853].
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Pickard, Kate E.R. (1968) [1856].
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife Vina, after Forty Years of Slavery . New York: Negro Universities Press.
Redpath, James (1996) [1859]. McKivigan, John B. (ed.).
The Roving Editor, or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Smallwood, Thomas (2000) [1851].
A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man) . Toronto: Mercury Press.
ISBN
1-55128-082-5 . Credited with coining the term "Underground Railroad" a decade earlier
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Stepto, Robert B. (1979).
From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
0-252-00752-2 .
Stewart, Maria W. (1987) [1831-1879].
Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0-253-36342-X .
Stone, Kate (1995) [1861-1868, 1955].
Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
ISBN
0-807 1-2042-1 .
Williams, James (1838).
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama . Boston: Isaac Knapp (for the American Anti-Slavery Society).
Yetman, Norman R. (1970).
Life under the "Peculiar Institution": Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection . New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
ISBN
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Proslavery
Adams, Nehemiah (1855).
A Southside View of Slavery . Boston: T. R. Marvin.
—— (1861).
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale, with Northern Comments . Boston: Ticknor and Fields.
Colfax, Richard H. (1833).
Evidence against the Views of the Abolitionists, Consisting of Physical and Moral Proofs, of the Natural Inferiority of the Negroes . New York: James T.M. Bleakley, Publisher.
Drayton, William (1836).
The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists . Philadelphia: H. Manly.
Elliott, E.N., ed. (1860).
Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on This Important Subject . Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbott & Loomis.
Fitzhugh, George (1854).
Sociology for the South: Or, the Failure of Free Society . Richmond, VA: A. Morris, Publishers.
Harper, William ;
Hammond, James H. ;
Simms, William Gilmore ;
Dew, Thomas Roderick (1852).
The Pro-Slavery Argument; As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States . Charleston, SC: Walker, Richards & Co.
Kingsley, Zephaniah (2000) [1828]. Stowell, Daniel W. (ed.).
Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
ISBN
9780813021171 .
Sleigh, William Willcocks (1838).
Abolitionism exposed! Proving that the principles of abolitionism are injurious to the slaves themselves, destructive to this nation, and contrary to the express commands of God... Philadelphia: D. Schneck.
For younger readers
Aliki (1965).
A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George W. Carver . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Altman, Linda Jacobs (2004).
The Politics of Slavery: Fiery National Debates Fueled by the Slave Economy . Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN
0-7660-2154-8 .
Armentrout, David; Armentrout, Patricia (2004).
The Emancipation Proclamation . Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Publishing LLC.
ISBN
1-59515-233-4 .
Aronson, Marc (2010).
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science . Boston: Clarion Books.
ISBN
978-0-618-57492-6 .
Best, B.J. (2016).
Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment . New York: Cavendish Square Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-50260-530-6 .
Bontemps, Arna (1958).
Story of the Negro . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Bowen, David (1965).
Struggle Within: Race Relations in the United States . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Burchard, Peter (1999).
Lincoln and Slavery . New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
ISBN
0-689-81570-0 .
Chambers, Bradford, ed. (1968).
Chronicles of Negro Protest: A Background Book for Young People Documenting the History of Black Power . New York: Parents' Magazine Press.
Colman, Julia; Thompson, Matilda G. (1859).
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life . New York: Carlton & Porter.
Currie, Stephen (2003).
Escapes from Slavery . San Diego, CA: Lucent Books.
ISBN
1-59018-276-6 .
Davis, Kenneth C. (2016).
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives . New York: Henry Holt and Company.
ISBN
9781627793117 .
DeFord, Deborah H. (2006).
Life under Slavery . Philadelphia: Chelsea House.
ISBN
0-8160-6135-1 .
Eskridge, Ann E. (2004).
Slave Uprisings and Runaways: Fighting for Freedom and the Underground Railroad . Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN
0-7660-2154-8 .
Garrison, Mary (2002).
Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes . Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Kids.
ISBN
1-57249-272-4 .
Goodman, Walter (1969).
Black Bondage: The Life of Slaves in the South . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Gorrell, Gena K. (1996).
North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad . Toronto, ONT: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited.
Gresko, Jessica A. (2007). Slave Rebellions . Detroit: Lucent Books.
ISBN
9781590185483 .
Hamilton, Virginia (1993).
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN
0-394-92873-3 .
Hermann, Spring (2010).
The Struggle for Freedom, 1770 to 1870 . London: Heinemann Library.
ISBN
978-0-431194-03-5 .
Hughes, Langston (1954).
Famous American Negroes . New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
—— (1958).
Famous Negro Heroes of America . New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
Ingraham, Leonard W. (1968).
Slavery in the United States . New York: Franklin Watts, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-531-00630-6 .
Isaacs, Sally Senzell (2001).
Life on a Southern Plantation . Chicago: Heinemann Library.
ISBN
1-57572-316-6 .
Jordan, Anne Devereaux; Schomp, Virginia (2007).
Slavery and Resistance . New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark.
ISBN
978-0-7614-2178-8 .
Kleinman, Joseph; Kurtis-Kleinman, Eileen (2001).
Life on an African Slave Ship . San Diego, CA: Lucent Books.
ISBN
1-56006-653-9 .
Landon, Elaine (2001).
Slave Narratives: The Journey to Freedom . New York: Franklin Watts, Inc.
ISBN
9780531117439 .
Lester, Julius ;
Feelings, Tom (1986) [1968].
To Be a Slave . New York: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN
0-590-42460-2 .
Lewis, Cicely (2022).
Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion . Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications.
ISBN
9781728439068 .
Liston, Robert A. (1972).
Slavery in America: The Heritage of Slavery . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Littlejohn, Randy (2004).
A Timeline of the Slave Trade in America . New York: Rosen Publishing Group.
ISBN
0-8239-4540-5 .
McGovern, Ann (1965).
Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman . New York: The Four Winds Press.
McKissack, Pat (1987).
Frederick Douglass: The Black Lion . Chicago: Childrens Press.
ISBN
0-516-03221-6 .
McLaurin, Melton Alonza (1991).
Celia, A Slave . Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
0-8203-1352-1 .
McNeese, Tim (2004).
The Rise and Fall of American Slavery: Freedom Denied, Freedom Gained . Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN
0-7660-2156-4 .
Millender, Dharathula H. (1965).
Crispus Attucks, Boy of Valor . Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill.
Owen, Robert Dale (1864).
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States . Philadelphia: J.R. Lippincott & Co.
Patterson, Lillie (1991) [1962].
Booker T. Washington: Leader of His People . New York: Chelsea Juniors.
ISBN
0-7910-1427-4 .
—— (1991).
Frederick Douglass: Freedom Fighter . New York: Chelsea Juniors.
ISBN
9780791014103 .
Pine, Tillie S. ; Levine, Joseph (1967).
The Africans Knew . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Schleichert, Elizabeth (1998).
The Thirteenth Amendment: Ending Slavery . Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN
0-89490-897-9 .
Shorto, Russell (1991).
Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery . Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press.
ISBN
1-878841-12-2 .
Strangis, Joel (1999).
Lewis Hayden and the War Against Slavery . New Haven, CT: Linnet Books.
ISBN
0-208-02430-1 .
Tapper, Suzanne Cloud (2017).
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