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Summer Institute :

Bibliography for American Slavery
Adam Rothman
Georgetown University

Books

Berlin, Ira. Generations of captivity: a history of African-American slaves (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003)

Berlin, Ira; Fields, Barbara J.; Miller, Steven F.; Reidy, Joseph P.; and Rowland, Leslie S. Slaves no more: three essays on emancipation and the Civil War (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The slaveholding republic: an account of the United States government's relations to slavery. Completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001)

Foner, Eric. Nothing but freedom: emancipation and its legacy (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1983)

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself, edited with an introduction by David W. Blight (Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1993)

Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, roll; the world the slaves made (New York, Pantheon Books, 1974)

Greenberg, Kenneth S., ed. The confessions of Nat Turner and related documents (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996)

Johnson, Walter. Soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999)

Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic slave trade (New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Kolchin, Peter. American slavery 1619-1877 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993)

Rose, Willie Lee, ed. A documentary history of slavery in North America (Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1999)

Websites

Handler, Jerome S., and Tuite, Michael L. Jr. The Atlantic Slave Trade and
Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, Library of Congress. http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Slavery and the Making of America. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

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