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United States (Organized by general works, then alphabetical by state)

Abzug, Robert H., ed., New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Barney, William L., The Road to Secession. New York: Praeger, 1972.

Berlin, Ira, ed. Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Rev. and enl. ed. New York: Oxford, 1978.

Boles, John B. Black Southerners, 1619-1869. Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Bradley, Patricia. Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Castronovo, Russ. Fathering the Nation: American Geneaologies of Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

David, Paul A. Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. 3d ed., rev. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Finkelman, Paul, ed., Economics, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Slavery. Articles on American Slavery; vol. 10. New York: Garland, 1989.

Fogel, Robert William. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989, c1974.

Fogel, Robert William. Without Consent or Contract. Technical papers: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton, 1992.

Foner, Eric. Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century America. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Freehling, William W. The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1994.

Genovese, Eugene D. A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Genovese, Eugene D. In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History. New York: Vintage, 1972.

Genovese, Eugene D. Political Economy of Slavery. 2nd ed. Middletown: Wesleyan, 1989.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.

Genovese, Eugene D. The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1995.

Genovese, Eugene D. The World the Slaveholders Made. New York: Pantheon, 1969.

Gilmore, Al-Tony. Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community. Westport: Greenwood, 1978.

Goodheart, Lawrence B., ed. Slavery in American Society. 3rd ed., Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1993.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Charlottesville: University Pressof Virginia, 1997.

Greenberg, Kenneth S. Honor and Slavery. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Gutman, Herbert George. Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross. Blacks in the New World. An Illini book. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1975].

Harris, J. William, ed., Society and Culture in the Slave South. Re-writing histories. London; New York: Routledge, 1992.

Hirschfeld, Fritz. George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1997.

Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery, Freedom & Culture among Early American Workers. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

Hudson, Larry E., Jr., Working toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1994

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery. New York: Vintage, 1990.

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic, 1985.

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

Lane, Ann J. The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and his Critics. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1971.

Lee, Susan. The Westward Movement of the Cotton Economy, 1840-1860: Perceived Interests and Economic Realities. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1977.

Levine, Bruce C. Half Slave and Half Free: The roots of Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 1991.

Miller, Elinor, comp., Plantation, Town and County: Essays on the Local History of American Slave Society. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1974.

Oakes, James. Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Owens, Leslie Howard. This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Ransom, Roger L. Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War. Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1989.

Remini, Robert Vincent. The Legacy of Andrew Jackson. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1988.

Roediger, David and Martin Blatt. The Meaning of Slavery in the North. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Rose, Willie Lee Nichols. Slavery and Freedom. Exp. ed. Oxford: Oxford University, 1982.

Smith, Mark M. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Wiencek, Henry. The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Colonial Slavery (General Interpretations)

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998

Countryman, Edward. How Did American Slavery Begin? Bedford: Macmillan, 1999.

Gomez, Michael Angelo. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities int he Colonial and Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Reiss, Oscar. Blacks in Colonial America. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 1997

Walsh, Lorena S. From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997

Wood, Betty. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997

Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the Colonial Era. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1984

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Alabama

Brown, Alan and David Taylor. Gabr'l Blow Sof': Sumter County, Alabama Slave Narratives. Livingston, Ala.: Livingston Press, 1997.

Fuller, Willie J. Blacks in Alabama, 1528-1865. Exchange bibliography - Council of Planning Librarians; 1033. Monticello, Ill.: Council of Planning Librarians, 1976

Nall, James Rastus. Free Born Slave: Diary of a Black Man in the South. Birmingham, Ala.: Crane Hill Publishers, 1995

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Appalachia

Inscoe, John C. Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989

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California

Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California. Yale Western Americana series; 29. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977

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Chesapeake

Davis, David Brion. Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake. The Foundations of America. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986

Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, 1986

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Connecticut

Mead, Jeffrey B. Chains Unbound: Slave Emancipation in the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut. Baltimore: Gateway, 1995

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Delaware

Essah, Patience. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996

Williams, William Henry. Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865. Wilmington: SR Books, 1996.

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Florida

Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

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Georgia

Bullard, Mary Ricketson. Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island: Growth of a Planter. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1995

Clifton, James M. Life and Labor on Argyle Island: Letters and Documents of a Savannah River Rice Plantation, 1833-1867. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1978

Ehrenhard, John E. Stafford Plantation, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia: Archeological Investigations of a Slave Cabin. Tallahassee, Fla.: Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1981

Harris, J. William. Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

Kemble, Fanny. Principles and Privilege: Two women's Lives on a Georgia Plantation. Ann Arbor paperbacks. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995

Killion, Ronald G. comp. Slavery Time When I Was Chillun Down on Marster's Plantation; Interviews with Georgia Slaves. Savannah, Beehive Press [1973]

Lane, Mills, ed. Neither More Nor Less Than Men: Slavery in Georgia: A Documentary History. Library of Georgia. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1993

Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986

Reidy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick). From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880. The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992

Smith, Julia Floyd. Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985

Wood, Betty. Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984

Wood, Betty. Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995

Young, Jeffrey Robert. Domesticating Slavery: The Ideological Formation of the Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, from Colonization to 1837. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Slave Bills of Sale Project. Atlanta, Ga. (P.O. Box 115268, Atlanta 30310): African-American Family History Association, [1986]

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Kansas

Sengupta, Gunja. For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996

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Kentucky

Browne, Martha Griffith. Autobiography of a Female Slave. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998

Pickard, Kate E.R. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

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Louisiana

Fox, Tryphena Blanche Holder. A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876. Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992

Ingersoll, Thomas N. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999

Kilbourne, Richard Holcombe. Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995

McDonald, Roderick A. (Roderick Alexander). The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993

Xavier University of Louisiana. Guide to the Heartman Manuscripts on Slavery. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1982

Whitten, David O. Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1995

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Maryland

Clayton, Ralph. Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore. Bowie: Heritage, 1993

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. Yale historical publications. Miscellany; 123. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985

Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980

Whitman, T. Stephen. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997

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Mississippi

Alford, Terry. Prince among Slaves. New York: Oxford University Press, [1986]

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

Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993

Moore, John Hebron. The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988

Sydnor, Charles S. (Charles Sackett). Slavery in Mississippi. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1966 [1933]

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Missouri

Hurt, R. Douglas. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992

Poole, Stafford. Church and Slave in Perry County, Missouri, 1818-1865. Studies in American religion; v. 22. Lewiston, N.Y., USA: E. Mellen Press, 1986

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New Jersey

Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865. Madison: Madison House, 1997

Pingeon, Frances D. Blacks in the Revolutionary Era. New Jersey's Revolutionary experience; 14. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975

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New Mexico

Murphy, Lawrence R. Antislavery in the Southwest: William G. Kephart's Mission to New Mexico, 1850-53. Southwestern studies; monograph no. 54. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1978

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New York

Foote, Thelma Wills. Black Life in Colonial Manhattan, 1664-1786. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1991

Davis, Thomas J. A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York. New York: Free Press, 1985

Ginsberg, Judah B. (Judah Bennett). The Tangled Web: The New York Democratic Party and the Slavery Controversy, 1844-1860. [University Microfilms. Publication no.] 74-19915. [Doctoral dissertation series]. Microfilm of Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1974

Kobrin, David. The Black Minority in Early New York. Albany: New York State American Bicentennial Commission, 1975

Moss, Richard Shannon. Slavery on Long Island: A Study in Local Institutional and Early African-American Communal Life. Studies in African American history and culture. New York: Garland, 1993

Phelan, Helene C. And Why Not Every Man-: An Account of Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the Road to Freedom in New York's Southern Tier. Interlaken, N.Y.: Heart of the Lakes Pub., 1987

Power, Michael. Slavery and Freedom in Niagara. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.: Niagara Historical Society, 1993

White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991

Wilson, Sherrill D. New York City's African Slaveowners: A Social and Material Culture History. Studies in African American history and culture. New York: Garland Pub. Co., 1994

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North Carolina

Bassett, John Spencer. Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina. [New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1973]

Cecil-Fronsman, Bill. Common Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1992

Hilty, Hiram H. By Land and by Sea: Quakers Confront Slavery and its Aftermath in North Carolina. Greensboro, NC: North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1993

Inscoe, John C. Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989

Kay, Marvin L. Michael. An African Diaspora: Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Kay, Marvin L. Michael and Lorin Lee Cary, Slavery in North Caorlina, 1748-1775. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995

McKiever, Charles Fitzgerald. Slavery and the Emigration of North Carolina Friends. Murfreesboro, N.C., Johnson Pub. Co. [1970]

Sensbach, Jon F. A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1998.

Stealing a Little Freedom: Advertisements for Slave Runaways in North Carolina, 1791-1840. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; vol. 1812. New York: Garland, 1994

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Pennsylvania

Brouwer, Merle Gerald. The Negro as a Slave and as a Free Black in Colonial Pennsylvania. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Wayne State University, 1973

Nash, Gary B. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society & the Pennsylvania Black: Two hundredth anniversary exhibition, April 17, 1974-July 17, 1974, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: from its collections, those of Charles L. Blockson, and others. -- Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1974

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Rhode Island

Fitts, Robert K. Inventing New England's Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth Century Narragansett, Rhode Island. New York: Garland Pub., 1998

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South Carolina

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

Clarke, Erskine. Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in the Old South. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979

Creel, Margaret Washington. A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs. New York: New York University, 1988

Dusinberre, William. Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

Ferguson, Leland G. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992

Hammond, James Henry. Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Hurmence, Belinda. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J.F. Blair, 1989

Jones, Norrece T. Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press; Scranton, Pa.: Distributed by Harper & Row, 1989

Jones, Norrece T. Control Mechanisms in South Carolina Slave Society, 1800-1865. Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Northwestern University, 1981

Joyner, Charles W. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984

Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; Williamsburg, Va.: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990

Koger, Larry. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1985

Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981

Lofton, John. Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983

McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995

Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998

Pearson, Edward A. Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denamrk Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1999

Saville, Julie. The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1994

Singleton, Theresa, ed. The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life. Studies in historical archaeology. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985

Walker, Karen Jo. Kingsley and his Slaves: Anthropological Interpretation and Evaluation. Volumes in historical archaeology; 5. Columbia: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, the University of South Carolina, 1988

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. New York: Norton, 1975

Young, Jeffrey Robert. Domesticating Slavery: The Ideological Formation of the Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, from Colonization to 1837. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999

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Tennessee

Cimprich, John. Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861-1865. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1985

Howington, Arthur F. What Sayeth the Law: The Treatment of Slaves and Free Blacks in the State and Local Courts of Tennessee. American legal and constitutional history. New York: Garland Pub., 1986

Thomas, James P. From Tennessee Slave to St. Louis Entrepreneur: The Autobiography of James Thomas. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984

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Texas

Baker, T. Lindsay and Julie P. Baker. Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997

Campbell, Randolph. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989

Tyler, Ronnie C. The Slave Narratives of Texas. Austin: Encino Press, 1974

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Virginia

Boskin, Joseph. Into Slavery: Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony. The America's alternatives series. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1976

Brossard, Carlos Antonio. Indians, Economic Development and African Literacy in Colonial Virginia before 1660: A Study in Afro-American Literacy Before Absolute Bondage. Thesis (Ed. D.)--Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1976

Carson, Jane. Plantation Housekeeping in Colonial Virginia. 1974. [Williamsburg, Va.] : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; [Guilford, Conn.] : OPUS Publications, 1989

Cope, Robert S. Carry Me Back; Slavery and Servitude in Seventeenth Century Virginia. [1st ed.]. Pikeville, Ky., Pikeville College Press of the Appalachian Studies Center, 1973

Craven, Wesley Frank. White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. Richard lectures for 1970-71. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia [1971]

Davis, David Brion. Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake. The Foundations of America. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986

Dew, Charles B. Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994

Freehling, Alison Goodyear. Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-1832. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982

Hopkins, Margaret Lail. Index to the Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia, and to Slaveholders and Slaves: 1758-1786. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1991

Hucles, Michael. "Don't Grieve After Me": The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986. Hampton, Va.: Hampton University, 1986

Latimer, Frances Bibbins. Instruments of Freedom: Deeds and Wills of Emancipation, Northampton County, Virginia, 1782 to 1864. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1994

McColley, Robert. Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. 2d ed. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1973]

Minchinton, Walter E. Virginia Slave-trade Statistics, 1698-1775. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1984

Morgan, Edmund Sears. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton, 1975

Morgan, Lynda J. Emancipation in Virginia's Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992

Mullin, Gerald W. Flight and Rebellion; Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-century Virginia. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972

Siegel, Frederick F. The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1987

Silvers, Damon Abraham. Industry, Immigration, and Slavery: The Working People of Richmond, Virginia, 1845-1865. Thesis (A.B., Honors)--Harvard University, 1986

Takagi, Midori. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999

Tate, Thad W. The Negro in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; [Charlottesville, Va.]: Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 1965

Tyler-McGraw, Marie. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Valentine Museum; [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

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