Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Revised by Jenny Kaemmerlen, intern, October 2005

Slavery in the South

Books

Abzug, Robert H., and Stephen E. Maislish, eds. New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America:

Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Adams, F. Colburn. Our world, or, The slaveholder's daughter. New York: Auburn: Miller, Orton &

Mulligan, 1855. (PZ3.A212 O2 1855)

Adams, Edward C. L. Tales of the Congaree. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

(PS3501D1755A61987)

Adams, Nehemiah. A South-side View of Slavery. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. (E449 .A216)

Aguet, Isabelle. A Pictorial History of the Slave Trade. Geneve: Minerva, 1971. (HT975A581971)

Albanese, Anthony Gerald. The Plantation School. New York: Vantage Press, 1976. (E445.S7A43

1976)

Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: the Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (E453 .A52 1992)

Apetheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York International Publishers, 1969.

(E447A671969)

Asiegbu, Johnson U. J. Slavery and the Politics of Liberation 1787-1861: a Study of Liberated African

Emigration and British Anti-Slavery Policy. New York: Africana Pub. Corp., 1969.

(HT1165A83)

Aunt Sally: The Cross the Way of Freedom. Grand Rapids, MI: Candace Press, 1996. (PS508.N3 H47

1996 v.2)

Ball, Charles. Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave. Miami, FL: Mnemosyne Pub.

Co., 1969. (E444B181969)

Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. (F279C453A21998)

Beaumont, Gustave de. Marie; or, Slavery in the United States: a Novel of Jacksonian America.

Translated from the French by Barbara Chapman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,

1958. (E443B3713)

Beckles, Hilary. White Servitude and Black Slavery in Barbados, 1627-1715. Knoxville: University of

Tennessee Press, 1989. (HD4875B37B431989)

Begley, Paul R. African American Genealogical Research. Revised Edition. Columbia, SC: South

Carolina Department of Archives and History, Publications Service Area, 1997.

(E185.93 .S7B431997)

Benton, Thomas Hart. Historical and Legal Examination of that Part of the Decision of the Supreme

Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case: which Declares the Unconstitutionality

of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the Self-Extension of the Constitution to Territories,

Carrying Slavery Along with it.  New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969. (KF4545S5B451969)

Berlin, Ira, et. al., eds. The Destruction of Slavery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

(E185.2F88ser.1,v1)

Berlin, Ira, ed. Free At Last: a Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New

York: The New Press, 1992. (E185.2F81992)

Bernhard, Virginia. Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. Columbia: University of Missouri

Press, 1999. (HT1105.B47 B47 1999)

Bibb, Henry. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by

Himself. Miami, FL: Mnemosyne Pub. Co., 1969. (E444 .B58 1969)

Black Public Sphere Collective, ed. The Black Public Sphere: a Public Culture Book. Chicago, IL:

University of Chicago Press, 1995. (E185.86 .B533 1995)

Blackett, R. J. M. Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist

Movement, 1830-1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. (DA125N4B541983)

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and

Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. (E444S57)

Boles, John B. Black Southerners, 1619-1869. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

(E441B67198)

Boles, John B., ed. Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American

South, 1740-1870. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. (E446M41988)

Bourne, George.  Picture of Slavery in the United States of America. Detroit, MI: Negro History Press,

1972. (E449B7731972)

Brady, Terence, and Evan Jones. The Fight Against Slavery. New York: Norton, 1977. (HT867 .B68

1977)

Branch, Muriel Miller. The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People.

New York: Cobblehill Books, 1995. (E184G84B731995)

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro

Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia.

New York: Collier Books, 1970. (E185.61B821970)

Brown, Henry Box, and Charles Stearn. Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery

Enclosed in a Box 3 feet Long and 2 Wide. Philadelphia: Rhistoric Publications, 1969.

(E450B8731969)

Cable, Mary. Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad. New York: Penguin Books,

1977. (E447 .C24 1977)

Campbell, Stanley W. The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970. (E450C43)

Ciment, James. Atlas of African-American History. New York: Facts on File, 2001. (E185 .C55 2001)

Clarke, Erskine. Wrestlin’ Jacob: a Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina

Lowcountry. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. (BR563N4C572000)

Clinkscales, J. G. On the Old Plantation: Reminiscences of His Childhood. Spartanburg, SC: Band &

White, 1916. (F273 .C64)

Cockrum, William Monroe. History of the Underground Railroad As It Was Conducted by the Anti-

Slavery League: Including Many Thrilling Encounters Between Those Aiding the Slaves to

Escape and Those Trying to Recapture Them. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1991. (E450C661991)

Cohen, Lily Young. Lost Spirituals. New York: W. Neale, 1928. (ML3556C63L51928)

Cooper, Wiliam J. Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860. Columbia, SC: University

of South Carolina Press, 2000. (F213 .C682000)

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South. Columbia:

University South Carolina Press, 1999. (E449 .C821999)

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. “When I Can Read My Title Clear”: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the

Antebellum South. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. (E443C71991)

Cox, Edward L. Free Coloreds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitts and Grenada, 1763-1833.

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. (HT1105G84C691984)

Cox, Timothy J. Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: from Alejo Carpentier to Charles

Johnson. New York: Garland Pub., 2001. (PN6120.95.S44 C69 2001)

Craft, William. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from

Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. (E450 .C8 1999)

Creel, Margaret Washington. A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among

the Gullahs. New York: New York University Press, 1988. (E445S7C741988)

Curry, Richard O., and Joanna Dunlap Cowden, eds. Slavery in America: Theodore Weld's American

Slavery As It Is. Itasca, IL: F. E. Peacock Publishers, 1972. (E449 .W442 1972)

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

Cambridge University Press, 1990. (HT1048C871990)

Daniel, Pete. The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. London, New York, Oxford

University Press, 1973. (HD4875U5D31973)

Davis, David Brion. Slavery and Human Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

(HT861D381984)

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, 1975. (HT867D381975)

Degler, Carl N. Place Over Time: the Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness. Baton Rouge: Louisiana

State University Press, 1977. (F209D431977)

Deyle, Steven H. The Domestic Slave Trade in America. Columbia University, DAI, 1995. (E441 .D49

1995a)

Dillon, Merton Lynn. Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and Their Allies, 1619-1865. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1990. (E441D551990)

Dirks, Robert. The Black Saturnalia: Conflict and Its ritual Expression on British West Indian Slave

Plantations. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, University of Florida Press, 1987.

(GT4987.23D571987)

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Garden City,

NY: Doubleday, 1963. (E449D7461963)

Drago, Edmund L. Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston’s Avery Normal Institute.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. (LC2852C443D731990)

Drake, Thomas Edward. Quakers and Slavery in America. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1965.

(E441 .D75 1965)

Drew, Benjamin. A North-side View of Slavery. The Refugee; or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in

Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the

Colored Population of Upper Canada. Boston: J.P. Jewett and Company, 1856. (E450 .D77)

Dusinberre, William Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1996. (E445S7D871996)

Eaklor, Vicki Lynn. American Antislavery Songs: a Collection and Analysis. New York: Greenwood

Press, 1988. (PS595S65E161988)

Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: a Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1968. (E441E441968)

Eltis, David and David Richardson, eds. Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the

Transatlantic Slave Trade. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. (HT1322 .R65 1997)

Engerman, Stanley L., and Eugene D. Genovese, eds. Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere:

Quantitative Studies. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975. (HT1048R33)

Ericson, David F. The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum

America. New York: New York University Press, 2000. (E449 .E73 2000)

Faust, Drew Gilpin. Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the Antebellum South.

Richmond: University of Virginia Press, 1991. (E443B441991)

Feelings, Tom. The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo. New York: Dial Books, 1995.

(ND237.F32 A4 1995)

Ferguson, Leland G. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800.

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1992. (E445S7F371992)

Fett, Sharla. Working Curses: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. (RA448.5N4F482002)

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the

Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. (E445M3F541985)

Fierce, Milfred C. Slavery Revisited: Blacks and the Southern Convict Lease System, 1865-1933.

Brooklyn, NY: Africana Studies Research Center, Brooklyn College, City University of New

York, 1994. (HV8929A132F531994)

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Slavery & the Law. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1997. (KF4545.S5 S577 1997)

Finley, M. I. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1983.

(HT863F481983)

Fisher, Allan George Barnard, and Humphrey J. Fisher. Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa: the

Institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa and the Trans-Saharan Trade. Garden City:

Anchor Books, 1972. (HT1381F541972)

Fitzhugh, George. Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of Free Society. Richmond, VA: A. Morris,

1854. (E449F5571854)

Fogel, Robert William. Time on the Cross: the Economics of American Negro Slavery.

New York: Norton, 1995. E449 .F65 1995

Fogel, Robert William. Without Consent or Contract: the Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New

York: Norton, 1989. (E441F631989)

Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: a History of African

Americans. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. (E185 .F825 1994)

French, Austa Malinda. Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-Slaves; or The Port Royal Mission.

New York: Negro University Press, 1969. (E185.93S7F81969)

Frey, Sylvia. “Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America’s Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man

Who Led It by David Robertson (Book Review).” The Avery Review 3 (Spring 2000): 124-126.

Frey, Sylvia R. and Betty Wood, eds. From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World. Portland,

OR: Frank Cass, 1999. (HT1048 .F75 1999)

Gadsden, E. Dorian. Resolving the Dilemma: Closing the Divide. Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, 2001.

(E185.615 .G27 2001)

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

Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. (HT1049M621996)

Genovese, Eugene D. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of

the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. (HT1048G43)

Genovese, Eugene D. In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-

American History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. (E441G41984)

Gilmore, Al-Tony, ed. Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community: the Scholars Respond.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. (E443B553R481978)

Goldin, Claudia Dale.  Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860: a Quantitative History.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. (E449 .G63 1976)

Gratus, Jack. The Great White Lie: Slavery, Emancipation, and Changing Racial Attitudes.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. (HT1091G69)

Grayson, William J. The Hireling and Slave. Charleston: J. Russell, 1854. (PS1764 .G238 1854)

Greene, Jack P., Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks. Money, Trade, and Power: the Evolution

of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,

2001. (HC107.S7 M56 2001)

Green, Jonathan. Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green. Columbia, SC: University of South

Carolina Press, 1996. (ND237.G6169A41996)

Greene, Harlan, and Harry S. Hutchins, Jr. Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston,

South Carolina, 1783-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004. (F279.C49 N425 2004)

Greene, Lorenzo Johnston. The Negro in Colonial New England. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

(E445.N5 G7 1968)

Gutman, Herbert George. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon

Books, 1976. ( E185.86G771976)

Handler, Jerome S. The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados.

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. (HT1105B3H35)

Harris, David Golightly. Piedmont Farmer: The Journals of David Golightly Harris, 1855-1870.

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. (F277S7H371990)

Harris, Joseph E., ed. Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora. Washington, DC: Howard

University Press, 1982. (DT14G561982)

Haynes, Robert V. Blacks in White America Before 1865: Issues and Interpretations.

New York: D. Mckay Co., 1972. (E441H38)

Heisser, David C. R. “A Few Words on the Domestic Slavery in the Confederate States of America

by Bishop Patrick N. Lynch, Part 3.” The Avery Review 3 (Spring 2000): 93-123.

Helsley, Alexia Jones. South Carolina’s African American Confederate Pensioners, 1923-1925.

Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1998. (E585 .A35H441998)

Helsley, Alexia Jones. The Many Faces of Slavery. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of

Archives and History, 1999. (E445 .S7H441999)

Hermann, Janet Sharp. The Pursuit of a Dream. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

(F349.D38 H47 1981)

Higginbotham, A. Leon. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process, the Colonial

Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. (KF4757 H53 R3 1980)

Hine, Darlene Clark and Earnestine Jenkins, eds. A Question of Manhood: a Reader in U.S. Black

Men's History and Masculinity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. (E185,86.Q461999 V1)

Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and

Jews. Chicago: Latimer Associates, 1991. (E185.61S39841991 V.1)

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Black Odyssey: the African-American Ordeal in Slavery. New York: Vintage

Books, 1990. (E441 .H89 1990)

Hurmence, Belinda. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of

Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem: J.F. Blair, 1989. (E445S7B441989)

Hurmence, Belinda, ed. My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery: Twenty-One Oral Histories

of Former North Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem, NC: J.F. Blair, 1984. (E445N8M91984)

Hurmence, Belinda, ed. Slavery Time When I Was Chillun. New York: Putnam, 1997. (E444 .S6 1 997)

Hurmence, Belinda, ed. We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard. Winston-Salem, NC: J.F. Blair, 1994.

(E444 .W35 1994)

Inscoe, John C. Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina.

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. (E445N8I571989)

Jacoway, Elizabeth. Yankee Missionaries in the South: The Penn School Experiment. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1980. (T171P45J32)

Jervey, Theodore D. The Slave Trade: Slavery and Color. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1925.

(E185J461925)

Johannsen, Robert Walter. Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: the Political Dimension. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1991. (E415.7J6851991)

Johnson, Guion Griffis. A Social History of the Sea Islands with Special References to St. Helena

Island, South Carolina. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. (F277 .B3J671969)

Jones, Anne Goodwyn and Susan V. Donalson, eds. Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. (PS261 .H34 1997)

Jones, Jacqueline. American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor. New York: W.W.

Norton, 1999. (E185.8 .J767 1999)

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from

Slavery to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. (HD6057.5U5J661986)

Jones, John W. Confederate Currency: the Color of Money, Images of Slavery in Confederate and

Southern States Currency. West Columbia, SC: New Directions, 2002. (HG526 .J66 2002)

Jones, Norrece T. Born A Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies

of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1990. (E445S7J661990)

Jordan, Winthrop D., and Sheila L. Skemp, eds. Race and Family in the Colonial South: Essays.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987. (E441R261987)

Jordan, Winthrop D. The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States.

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Joyner, Charles W. Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Urbana:

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Keegan, Susanne. The Slaves. New York: Putnam, 1978. (HT867 .E95 1978)

Kemble, Fanny. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. ed. John A. Scott.

New York: Knopf, 1961. (F290 .K332 1961)

Killens, John Oliver. The Trial of Denmark Vesey. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. (KF223V4K41970)

King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana

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Kinlaw-Ross, Eleanor. Dat Gullah and Other Geechie Traditions. Atlanta, GA: Crick Edge

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Kiple, Kenneth F., ed. The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People. Durham,

NC: Duke University Press, 1988. (RA442A371988)

Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise in the Planter Class in the South Carolina

Backcountry, 1760-1808. Chapel Hill: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. (F272K561990)

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Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. (E441 .K64 1993)

Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge, MA: Belknap

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

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