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

Bibliographies:

Miller, Joseph C., Slavery: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1982 (1985); for works published after 1985, see Miller, “Slavery: Annual Bibliography Supplements,” in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies

Miller, Randal M. and John David Smith, Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988)

Smith, John David, Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865-1980 (1982)

General:

Berlin, Ira, Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves

Blackburn, Robin, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Curtin, Philip, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History

Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

Davis, David Brion, Slavery and Human Progress

Foner, Eric, The Story of American Freedom

Foner, Philip S., History of Black Americans: From Africa to the Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom

Goodheart, Lawrence B., Richard D. Brown, and Stephen G. Rabe, Slavery in American Society, 3rd ed. (D.C. Heath, Problems in American Civilization series; extensive selections from secondary and primary sources, excellent for students)

Gutman, Herbert G., The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

Kelley, Robin D.G. and Earl Lewis, eds., To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans

Kolchin, Peter, American Slavery, 1619-1877

Patterson, Orlando, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study

Patterson, Orlando, Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

Tannenbaum, Frank, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas

Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery

Slavery, Memory and Popular Representations:

Blight, David W., Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Bogle, Donald, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films

Davis, Natalie Zemon, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision

Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen, eds., Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

Fleishner, Jennifer, Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives

Painter, Nell Irvin, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Wood, Marcus, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade:

Curtin, Philip D., The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census

Eltis, David, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

Inikori, Joseph E. and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade

Lovejoy, Paul E., Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa

Manning, Patrick, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental and African Slave Trades

Miller, Joseph, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830

Northrup, David, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade

Phillips, William D., Jr., Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade

Rodney, Walter, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800

Solow, Barbara L., ed., Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System

Thornton, John K., Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680

Slavery in the Caribbean and Elsewhere:

Beckles, Hilary, and Verene Shepherd, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World

Blackburn, Robin, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery

Dunn, Richard, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the West Indies, 1624-1713

Finley, Moses I., Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology

Goveia, Elsa, Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century

James, C.L.R., The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Knight, Franklin W., Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century

Lewis, Bernard, Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Palmer, Colin, Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650

Schwartz, Stuart, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Tomich, Dale W. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-48

Toplin, Robert Brent, The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil

Colonial Slavery:

Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Berlin, Ira, and Ronald Hoffman, eds., Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolution

Breen, Timothy H., and Steven Innes, Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1675

Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century

Kulikoff, Allan, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800

Landers, Jane, Black Society in Spanish Florida

Morgan, Edmund S., American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

Morgan, Philip D., Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Olwell, Robert, Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790

Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the American Revolution

Usner, Daniel, Indians, Settlers & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783

Walsh, Lorena, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: A History of a Virginia Slave Community

Wood, Peter, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

Slavery in the North:

Hodges, Graham Russell, Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey, 1613-1863

Hodges, Graham Russell, Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865

Horton, James O. and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

McManus, Edgar J., A History of Negro Slavery in New York

Melish Joanne Pope, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860

Nash, Gary B., Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840

Piersen, William D., Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Sub-Culture in Eighteenth Century New England

White, Shane, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City

Zilversmit, Arthur, The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North

Identities, Culture, and Religion

Abrahams, Roger D., Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South

Fields, Barbara J., “Race and Ideology in American History,” in J. Morgan Kousser and James McPherson, eds., Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward

Frey, Sylvia R.and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

Gomez, Michael, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in The Colonial and Antebellum South

Levine, Lawrence, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom

Mintz, Sidney W. and Richard Price, The Birth of African American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective

Painter, Nell Irvin, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Palmie, Stephan, ed., Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery

Rael, Patrick, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North

Stuckey, Sterling, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundation of Black America

Thompson, Robert Faris, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy

Vlach, John Michael, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery

Woodson, Carter G., The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860

Gendered Slavery:

Alexander, Adele Logan, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Antebellum Georgia

Brown, Elsa Barkley, Darlene Clark Hine, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Frankel, Noralee, Freedom’s Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi

Gaspar, David Barry and Darlene Clark Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

Jones, Jacqueline, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, From Slavery to the Present

Schwalm, Leslie A., A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina

White, Deborah Grey, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Antebellum Slavery and Freedom:

Berlin, Ira and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

Berlin, Ira and Philip D. Morgan, eds., The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

Berlin, Ira, Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Blassingame, John, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

Dew, Charles B., Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

Elkins, Stanley, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

Faust, Drew Gilpin, James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (especially chapter 5)

Fogel, Robert W., Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Genovese, Eugene, Roll Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

Hudson, Larry E. Jr., ed., Working Towards Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South

Hudson, Larry E., To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina

Johnson, Michael P. and James L Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South

Johnson, Walter, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Joyner, Charles, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community

King, Wilma, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth Century America

Kolchin, Peter, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

Lockley, Timothy, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860

Phillips, Christopher, Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860

Reidy, Joseph, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (especially chapters 1-5)

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins, Born in Bondage: Growing up Enslaved in the Antebellum South

Stampp, Kenneth, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South

Stevenson, Brenda E., Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South

Tadman, Michael, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders and Slaves in the Old South

Takagi, Midori, Rearing Wolves to our own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865

Whitman, T. Stephen, The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

Slavery and the Law:

Fehrenbacher, Don, The Slaveholders Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery

Finkleman, Paul, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity

Lynd, Staughton, Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution

Morris, Thomas, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1689-1860

Schafer, Judith Kelleher, Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana

Schwartz, Philip, Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1856

The Destruction of Slavery:

Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

Faust, Drew Gilpin, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Fields, Barbara Jeanne, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century

Mohr, Clarence L., On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia

Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the Civil War

Published Primary Sources:

Andrews, William L., ed., Six Women’s Slave Narratives

Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., The Black Military Experience

Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., The Destruction of Slavery

Berlin, Ira and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Freedom’s Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, eds., Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Blassingame, John W., ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (CALL #: E444.S57)

Carretta, Vincent, ed., Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century

Conrad, Robert E., ed., In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union (CALL #: E441.I49 2001)

Curtin, Phillip, ed., Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans From the Era of the Slave Trade

Davis, Charles T. and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Slave’s Narrative

Davis, David Brion and Steven Mintz, eds., This Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America From Discovery Through the Civil War (CALL #: MCK Ref E187.B65 1998)

Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, ed. David W. Blight

Equiano, Olaudah, Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, ed. Vincent Carretta

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources

Hodges, Graham Russell and Alan Edward Brown, eds., “Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (CALL #: E445.N56P74 1994)

Jacobs, Harriet A., Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

McLaurin, Melton A., Celia: A Slave

Miller, Randall M., ed., Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family (CALL #: E444.D42 1978)

Mullin, Michael, ed., American Negro Slavery: A Documentary History (CALL #: E441.A577 1976)

Newman, Richard, Patrick Rael, and Philip Lapsansky, eds., Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, 1790-1860

Prince, Mary, The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, ed. Sara Salih

Purdue, Charles, et al., eds. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves

Rawick, George P., ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography Two series, 1972 and 1979 (CALL #: E441.A58)

Ripley, Peter C., ed., Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation

Rose, Willie Lee, ed., A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (CALL #: E441.D64)

Rosengarten, Theodore, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter.

Smith, Billy G. and Richard Wojtowicz, eds., Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1790 (CALL #: E443.B525 1989)

Starobin, Robert, ed., Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves (CALL #: E444.S82 1974)

Taylor, Susie King. A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs. Eds. Patricia W. Romero and Willie Lee Rose.

Windley, Lathan A., A Profile of Runaway Slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 (CALL #: E445.V8W593 1995)

Wish, Harvey, ed., Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Antebellum American Southland from Northern and Southern Whites, Negroes, & Foreign Observers (CALL #: E441.W78)

Selected Slavery Websites and Electronic Databases:

Andrews, William. “Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives,” at http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/

Ayers, Edward L. “Valley of the Shadow—Two Communities in the American Civil War,” at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

Costa, Thomas, ed., “Runaway Slave Advertisements from 18th Century Virginia Newspapers,” at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/runaways/

Eltis, David. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project, at http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/index.html

Handler, Jerome and Michael L. Tuite, Jr., “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record,” at http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/

History Department, University of Maryland and Montgomery County Public Schools. “Rethinking the Americas: Teaching History Outreach Project on the Americas,” at http://www.mith2.umd.edu/archive/mcpshistory/berlin_workshop.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selected Genealogical Websites:

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

Afrigeneas
http://www.afrigeneas.com/

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

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

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