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Abolition
Anthropology and Archaeology of Slavery
Architecture

Biographical Studies
Black Slaveowners
Civil War and Slavery
Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
Culture
Economics of Slavery
Education
Family and Children
Fugitive Slaves
Genealogy
Intellectual and Cultural History
Jews and the Slave Trade
Labor
Language
The Law and Slavery
Medicine and Demography
Native Americans and Slavery
North African "White Slavery"
Philosophy and Slavery
Politics of Slavery
Pro-Slavery Argument
Psychological Aspects of Slavery
Race
Religion
Resistance
Slave Owners and Planter Class
Slave Trade
Slavery in the Contemporary World
Underground Railroad
Urban Slavery
Women
 


Abolition

General Interpretations:

Bender, Thomas. The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848. London: Verso, 1988.

Cunliffe, Marcus. Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860. Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures; no. 22. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979.

Rice, C. Duncan. The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

American Abolition:

Abbott, Richard H. Cotton & Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854-1868. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.

Azevedo, Celia Maria Marinho de. Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Garland, 1995.

Bilotta, James D. Race and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1848-1865. New York: P. Lang, 1992.

Blackett, R.J.M. Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1983.

Buckmaster, Henrietta. Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.

Clark, Christopher. The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Cook, Robert. Baptism of Fire: The Republican Party of Iowa, 1838-1878. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.

DeBoer, Clara Merritt. Be Jubliant My Feet: African American Abolitionists in the American Missionary Association, 1839-1861. New York: Garland, 1994.

Dillon, Merton Lynn. Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and their Allies, 1619-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Dixon, Chris. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Fogel, Robert W. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989.

Foner, Philip S. and Herbert Shapiro. Northern Labor and Antislavery: A Documentary History. Westport: Greenwood, 1994.

Goodheart, Lawrence B. and Hugh Hawkins. The Abolitionists: Means, Ends, and Motivations. 3rd Ed. Lexington: D.C. Heath and Co., 1995.

Gougeon, Len. Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Grimstead, David. American Mobbing, 1828-1861. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Guy, Anita Aidt. Maryland's Persistent Pursuit to End Slavery, 1850-1864. New York: Garland, 1997.

Harrold, Stanley. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Howard, Victor B. The Evangelical War Against Slavery and Caste: The Life and Times of John G. Free. Senlinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1996.

Jacobs, Donald M. Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Jennings, Lawrence C. French Reaction to British Slave Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

McGlynn, Frank, Ed. Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture after Slavery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1992.

McInerney, Daniel John. The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition & Republican Thought. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

McManus, Michael J. Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998.

Marshall, Peter D. Bristol and the Abolition of Slavery: The Politics of Emancipation. Local history pamphlets; no. 37. Bristol: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, 1975.

Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution. Madison: Madison House, 1990.

Perry, Lewis and Michael Fellman. Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Perry, Lewis. Radical Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Ripley, C. Peter. Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Rogers, William B. "We Are All Together Now": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Prophetic Tradition. New York: Garland, 1995.

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Poltiics of the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Sears, Richard D. The Kentucky Abolitionists in the Midst of Slavery. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

Stewart, James Brewer. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Strong, Douglas M. Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Volpe, Vernon L. Forlorn Hope of Freedom: The Liberty Party in the Old Northwest, 1838-1848. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990.

Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the End of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Harvard University, 1995.

Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Yellin, Jean Fagan and John C. Van Horne. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Young, R.J. Antebellum Black Activists: Race, Gender, and Self. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.

Brazilian Abolition:

Azevedo, Celia Maria Marinho de. Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Garland, 1995.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850-1888. 2nd ed. Malabar: Krieger Pub. Co., 1993.

British Abolition:

Anstey, Roger. Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition. Liverpool: Historic Society of Lancashire and Chershire, 1989.

Bolt, Christine and Seymour Drescher. Anti-Slavery, Religion and Reform. Folkestone: W. Dawson, 1980.

D'Anjou, Leo. Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign Revisited. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996.

Drescher, Seymour. Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.

Halversleben, Karen I. Women's Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1993.

Hurwitz, Edith F. Politics and the Public Conscience: Slave Emancipation and the Abolitionist Movement in Britain. London: Allen & Unwin, 1973.

Midgley, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870. London: Routledge, 1992.

Oldfield, J.R. Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade, 1787-1807. London: Frank Cass, 1998.

Temperley, Howard. White Dreams, Black Africa: The Antislavery Expedition to the River Niger, 1941-1842. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Turley, David. The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860. London: Routledge, 1991.

Walvin, James. Questioning Slavery. London: Routledge, 1996.

Canadian Antislavery:

Stouffer, Allen P. The Light of Nature and the Law of God: Antislavery in Ontario, 1833-1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Dutch Antislavery:

Oostindie, Gert. Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism, and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. LeidenL KITLV Press, 1995.

French Antislavery:

Spanish Antislavery:

Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

West Indian Abolition:

Levy, Claude. Emancipation, Sugar, and Federalism: Barbados and the West Indies, 1833-1876. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1980.

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Biographical Studies

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Blue, Frederick J. Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1994.

Brown, Ira V. Mary Grew: Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1991.

Burke, Ronald K. Samuel Ringgold Ward, Christian Abolitionist. New York: Garland Pub., 1995.

Cheek, William F. John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Davis, Hugh. Joshua Leavitt: Evangelical Abolitionists. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Eisan, Frances K. Saint or Demon: The Legendary Delia Webster Opposing Slavery. New York: Pace University Press, 1998.

Goodheart, Lawrence B. Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990.

Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1988.

Heller, Charles E. Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Hunter, Carol M. To Set the Captives Free: Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen and the Struggle for Freedom in Central New York, 1835-1872. New York: Garland, 1993.

Lampe, Gregory P. Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1945. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hansen, Debra Gold. Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

Mabee, Carleton. Sojourner Truth--Slave, Prophet, Legend. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Pasternak, Martin B. Rise Now and Fly to Arms: The Life of Henry Highland Garnet. New York: Garland, 1995.

Runyon, Randolph. Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Salitan, Lucille and Eve Lewis Perera. Virtuous Lives: Four Quaker Sisters Remember Family Life, Abolitionism, and Women's Suffrage. New York: Continuum, 1994.

Simon, Paul. Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.

Spevack, Edmund. Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Sterling, Dorothy. Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Anti-Slavery. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Stewart, James Brewer. William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of Emancipation. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1992.

Thomas, Herman Edward. James W.C. Pennington: African American Churchman and Abolitionist. New York: Garland Press, 1995.

Von Frank, Albert J. The Trials of Anthony Burns. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Walvin, James. An African's Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797. Washington: Cassell, 1998.

Wilson, Ellen Gibson. Thomas Clarkson: A Biography. 2nd ed. York: William Sessions, 1996.

Yacovone, Donald. Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

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Anthropology and Archaeology of Slavery

African-American Archaeology: Newsletter of the African-American Archaeology Network. No. 1 (spring 1990)- Washington, D.C.: Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, [1990-

Crist, Thomas A. J. The Bone Chemical Analysis and Bioarchaeology of an Historic South Carolina African-American Cemetery. Volumes in historical archaeology; 18. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 1991.

Delle, James A. An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. New York: Plenum Press, 1998.

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

Meillassoux, Claude. The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. London: Athlone, 1991.

Otto, John Solomon. Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794-1860: Living Conditions and Status Patterns in the Old South. Studies in historical archaeology. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984.

Singleton, Theresa A. The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985.

Trinkley, Michael. Archaeological Studies Associated with the Nineteenth-Century Owens-Thomas Carriage House, Savannah, Georgia. Columbia: Chicora Foundation, 1993.

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Architecture

Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

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Black Slaveowners

Johnson, Michael P. and James L. Roark. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Koger, Larry. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 1994.

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

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Civil War and Slavery

Berlin, Ira, ed. Black Military Experience. Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Berlin, Ira, ed., The Destruction of Slavery. Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Berlin, Ira, ed., Free at Last. Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Berlin, Ira, ed., Slave No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Berlin, Ira, ed. The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867; ser. 1, v. 2. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Durden, Robert Franklin. The Gray and the Black; The Confederate Debate on Emancipation. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1972.

Gerteis, Louis S. From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy toward Southern Blacks, 1861-1865. Westport: Greenwood, 1977.

Glatthaar, Joseph. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance between Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Free Press, 1990.

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Colonial and Revolutionary Eras

Bruns, Roger, ed. "Am I not a Man and a Brother": The Antislavery Crusade of Revolutionary America. New York: Chelsea House, 1977.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery, Revolutionary America, and the New Nation. New York: Garland, 1989.

Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865. Madison: Madison House, 1995.

Macleod, Duncan J. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution. New York: Cambridge University, 1974.

Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1990.

Voelz, Peter Michael. Slave and Soldier: The Military Impact of Blacks in Colonial Americas. New York: Garland, 1993.

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

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Culture

Abrahams, Roger D. Singing the Master: The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Campbell, Edward D.C., Jr. Before Freedom Came: African-American life in the Antebellum South: To Accompany an Exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy. 1st ed. Richmond: The Museum; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.

Ownby, Ted, ed., Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South. Chancellor's symposium series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

Palmie, Stephan, ed. Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1995.

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Economics of Slavery

Aitken, Hugh G. J. comp. Did Slavery Pay- Readings in the Economics of Black Slavery in the United States. New perspectives in history. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

America, Richard F. The Wealth of Races: The Present Value of Benefits from Past Injustices. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 132. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Chaplin, Joyce E. An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1993.

Conrad, Alfred H. Studies in Econometric History. London: Chapman & Hall, 1965.

Dew, Charles B., ed. Slavery in Ante-bellum Southern Industries. Selections from the Duke University Library; Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina; Virginia Historical Society.

Fogel, Robert William. Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865. ICPSR; 7421.

Galenson, David W. Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Parker, William Nelson. Southern Farms Study, 1860. ICPSR; 7419.

Shore, Laurence. Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1986.

Woodman, Harold D., ed. Slavery and the Southern Economy; Sources and Readings. The Forces in American economic growth series. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

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Education

Albanese, Anthony Gerald. The Plantation School. New York: Vantage, 1976.

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. "When I Can Read my Title Clear": Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the antebellum South. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991.

Webber, Thomas L. Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831-1865. New York: Norton, 1978.

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Family and Children

Barrow, Christine. Family in the Caribbean: Themes and Perspectives. Kingston: I. Randle, 1996.

Clark, Elizabeth. Matrimonial Bonds: Slavery, Contract and the Law of Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America. Working papers / Legal History Program; 1-10. Madison, Wis.: Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin--Madison Law School, [1987].

Finkelman, Paul. Women and the Family in a Slave Society. Articles on American Slavery; vol. 9. New York: Garland Pub., 1989.

Gutman, Herbert. Black family in Slavery and Freedom. New York: Pantheon, 1976.

Hunefeldt, Christine. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Berkeley: University of California, 1994.

King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Malone, Ann Patton. Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth Century Louisiana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Tate, Thad. Race and Family in the Colonial South: Essays. Jackson, [Miss.]: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.

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Fugitive Slaves

Franklin, John Hope and Loren Schweninger. Runaway Slaves. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Windley, Lathan A. Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History From the 1730s to 1790. Westport: Greenwood, 1983.

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Genealogy

Streets, David H. Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986.

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Intellectual and Cultural History

Cusick, Richard. Coloring Slavery: Englightenment Attitudes toward Slavery and the Emancipation of Blacks during the French Revolution. Thesis (A.B., Honors in History)--Harvard University, 1992.

Garnsey, Peter. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Lott, Tommy L. Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Panzer, Joel S. The Popes and Slavery. New York: Alba Houe, 1996.

Papenfuse, Eric Robert. The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997.

Spiegel, Marjorie. The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery. New York: Mirror Books, 1996.

Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stuckey, Sterling, ed. The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism. Boston: Beacon, 1972.

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Jews and the Slave Trade

Faber, Eli. Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Friedman, Saul S. Jews and the American Slave Trade. New Brunswick: Transaction Pub., 1998.

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Labor

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

Fogel, Robert William. Slave Hires, 1775-1865. ICPSR; 7422.

Fogel, Robert William. Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865. ICPSR; 7421.

Jernegan, Marcus Wilson. Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America, 1607-1783. Westport: Greenwood, 1980.

Lewis, Ronald L. Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865. Westport: Greenwood, 1979.

Mintz, Sidney J. Was the Plantation Slave a Proletarian? Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1977.

Van Deburg, William L. The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies; no. 43. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Scarborough, William Kauffman. The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South. Athens: Univeristy of Georgia, 1984.

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Language

Bailey, Guy, ed., The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary. Creole language library, v. 8. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

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The Law of Slavery

Brandon, Mark E. Free in the New World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. Princeton: Princeton University press, 1998.

Brandwein, Pamela. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Cardoza Symposium on Bondage, Freedo and the Constitution. New York: Cardoza Law Review, 1996.

Cover, Robert M. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.

Fede, Andrew. People without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South. Distinguished studies in American legal and constitutional history. New York: Garland Pub., 1992.

Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The Dred Scott Case, Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Finkelman, Paul. Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

Finkelman, Paul. An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity. Studies in legal history. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Finkelman, Paul. The Law of Freedom and Bondage: A Casebook. The New York University School of Law series in legal history. Ingram documents in American legal history. New York: Oceana Publications, 1986.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases. Washington: Library of Congress: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1985.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1995.

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery & the Law. Madison: Madison House, 1997.

Finkelman, Paul. Southern Slaves in Free State Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. Slavery, Race, and the American legal system, 1700-1872; ser. 1. New York: Garland, 1988.

Flanigan, Daniel J. The Criminal Law of Slavery and Freedom, 1800-1868. American legal and constitutional history. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rice University, 1973.

Hall, Kermit L. The Law of American Slavery: Major Historical Interpretations. United States constitutional and legal history; v. 9. New York: Garland Pub., 1987.

Hindus, Michael Stephen. Slave Trials in Anderson and Spartanburg Counties, South Carolina, 1818-1861. ICPSR, 8674.

Hoemann, George H. What God Hath Wrought: The Embodiment of Freedom in the Thirteenth Amendment. American legal and constitutional history: a Garland series of outstanding dissertations. New York: Garland Pub., 1987.

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.

Hyman, Harold M. The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

McLaurin, Melton Alonza. Celia, a Slave. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Middleton, Stephen. Ohio and the Antislavery Activities of Attorney Salmon Portland Chase, 1830-1849. Distinguished studies in American legal and constitutional history. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.

Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Nieman, Donald G. The Constitution, Law, and American life: Critical Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century Experience. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992

Lively, Donald E. The Constitution and Race. New York: Praeger, 1992.

Schafer, Judith Kelleher. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.

Schwarz, Philip J. Slave Laws in Virginia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Schwarz, Philip J. Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Shaw, Robert B. A Legal History of Slavery in the United States. Potsdam, N.Y.: Northern Press, 1991.

Tushnet, Mark V. The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanity and Interest. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Wahl, Jenny Bourne. The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press, 1998.

Watson, Alan. Slave Law in the Americas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

West, Thomas G. Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.

Wiecek, William M. The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.

Wiethoff, William E. A Peculiar Humanism: The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South, 1820-1850. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Williams, Oscar R. African Americans and Colonial Legislation in the Middle Colonies. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

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Medicine and Demography

Bankole, Katherine Kemi. Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Chandler, David L.. Health and Slavery in Colonial Colombia. Dissertations in European economic history; 1981. New York: Arno Press, 1981.

Kiple, Kenneth F. The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 1987.

Kiple, Kenneth F. Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Kiple, Kenneth F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

McClelland, Peter D. Demographic Dimensions of the New Republic: American Interregional Migration, Vital Statistics, and Manumission, 1800-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1982.

Numbers, Ronald, ed., Science and Medicine in the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Postell, William Dosite. The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations. Louisiana State University studies: Social science series; no. 1. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1970.

Savitt, Todd Lee. Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Savitt, Todd Lee, ed. Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1988.

Sheridan, Richard B. Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Native Americans and Slavery

Averkieva, Iuliia Pavlovna. Slavery Among the Indians of North America. Rev. Translation by G.R. Elliott. Victoria, B.C., Victoria College, 1966.

Halliburton, R. Red over Black: Black Slavery among the Cherokee Indians. Westport: Greenwood, 1977.

Leland, Donald. Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Littlefield, Daniel F. Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation. Contributions in Afro-American and African studies; no. 32. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.

Magnaghi, Russell M. Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Olexer, Barbara. The Enslavement of the American Indian. Monroe, N.Y.: Library Research Associates, 1982.

Perdue, Theda. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1979.

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North African "White Slavery"

Baepler, Paul. White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Philosophy and Slavery

McGary, Howard. Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery. Blacks in the diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

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Politics of Slavery

Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Ashworth, John, Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Bilotta, James D. Race and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1848-1865. New York: P. Lang, 1992.

Cooper, William J. The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1978.

Davis, David Brion. Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1986.

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

Johannsen, Robert Walter. Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.

Lynd, Staughton. Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution. Westport: Greenwood, 1980.

Miller, William Lee. Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996.

Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Robinson, Donald L. Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820. New York: Norton, 1979.

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Pro-Slavery Argument

Ambrose, Douglas. Henry Hughes and Proslavery thought in the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

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

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Psychological Aspects of Slavery

Black, Daniel P. Dismantling Black Manhood: An Historical and Literary Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery. New York: Garland, 1997.

Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Patterson, Orlando. Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries. Washington: Civitas, 1998.

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Race

Freimarck, Vincent, ed., Race and the American Romantics. New York: Schocken Books, 1971.

Jordan, Winthrop D. The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. New York: Oxford, 1974.

Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1968.

Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: Free Press, 1977.

Peterson, Thomas Virgin. Ham and Japheth: The Mythic World of Whites in the Antebellum South. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1978.

Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London: Verso, 1991.

Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. 2nd ed. Boulder: Westview, 1999.

Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens: University of Georgia, 1987.

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Religion

Alho, Olli. The Religion of the Slaves. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1976.

Bailey, David T. Shadow on the Church: Southwestern Evangelical Religion and the Issue of Slavery, 1783-1860. Ithaca: Cornell, 1985.

Boles, John B. The Irony of Southern Religion. Rockwell lecture series; vol. 5. New York: P. Lang, 1994.

Boles, John B. Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870. Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Bolt, Christine, ed. Anti-Slavery, Religion and Reform: Essays in Memory of Roger Anstey. Hamden: Archon, 1980.

Burke, Ronald K. Samuel Ringgold Ward, Christian Abolitionist. Studies in African American history and culture. New York: Garland Pub., 1995.

Chesebrough, David B. Clergy Dissent in the Old South, 1830-1865. Carbondale: Southern Illlinois University Press, 1996.

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

Combes, I.A.H. The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of the Early Church. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

DeBoer, Clara Merritt. Be Jubilant My Feet: African American Abolitionists in the American Missionary Association, 1839-1861. Studies in African American history and culture. New York: Garland Pub., 1994

Diouf, Sylviane. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 1998

Earl, Riggins Renal. Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self, and Community in the Slave Mind. The Bishop Henry McNeal Turner studies in North American Black religion; v. 7. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1993

Essig, James D. The Bonds of Wickedness: American Evangelicals against Slavery, 1770-1808. Philadelphia: Temple, 1982

Farmer, James Oscar. The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986.

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Religion and Slavery. Articles on American Slavery; vol. 16. New York: Garland Pub., 1989.

Genovese, Eugene D. "Slavery Ordained of God": The Southern Slaveholders' View of Biblical History and Modern Politics. 24th annual Robert Fortenbaugh memorial lecture. Gettysburg: Gettysburg College, 1985.

Goatley, David Emmanuel. Were You There? Godforsakenness in Slave Religion. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996.

Gravely, William B. Gilbert Haven, Methodist Abolitionist. Nashville: Abingdon, 1973.

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.

Hilty, Hiram H. Toward Freedom for All: North Carolina Quakers and Slavery. Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1984.

Hopkins, Dwight N., ed. Cut Loose your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology in the Slave Narratives. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1991.

Howard, Victor B. Conscience and Slavery: The Evangelistic Calvinist Domestic Missions, 1837-1861. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990.

Howard, Victor B. Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Hunter, Carol M. To Set the Captives Free: Reverand Jermain Wesley Loguen and the Struggle for Freedom in Central New York, 1835-1872. Studies in African American history and culture. New York: Garland, 1993.

Lesick, Lawrence Thomas. The Lane Rebels: Evangelicalism and Antislavery in Antebellum America. Studies in evangelicalism; no. 2. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980.

McKivigan, John R. The War against Proslavery Religion: abolitionism and the northern churches, 1830-1865. Ithaca [N.Y.]: Cornell University Press, 1984.

McKivigan, John R. and Mitchell Snay. Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Mathews, Donald G. Slavery and Methodism: A Chapter in American Morality, 1780-1845. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.

Maxwell, John Francis. Slavery and the Catholic Church: The History of Catholic Teaching Concerning the Moral Legitimacy of the Institution of Slavery. Chichester: Rose [for] the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights, 1975.

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.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Scherer, Lester B. Slavery and the Churches in Early America, 1619-1866. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.

Smith, Warren Thomas. John Wesley and Slavery. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1986.

Sobel, Mechal. Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Princeton: Princeton Univeristy, 1988.

Stange, Douglas C. Patterns of Antislavery among American Unitarians, 1831-1860. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1974.

Titus, Noel. The Church and Slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean. CGSRS; no. 2, 1983. [Barbados, West Indies]: Caribbean Group for Social and Religious Studies, 1983.

Titus, Noel. The Development of Methodism in Barbados, 1823-1883. Bern; New York: P. Lang, 1994.

Turley, David. The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860. London; New York: Routledge, 1991.

Turner, Mary. Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave society, 1787-1834. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Washington, Joseph R. Anti-Blackness in English Religion, 1500-1800. Texts and studies in religion; 19. New York: E. Mellen Press, 1984.

Washington, Joseph R. Race and Religion in Early Nineteenth Century America, 1800-1850: Constitution, conscience, and Calvinist compromise. Studies in American religion; v. 39. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1988.

Washington, Joseph R. Race and Religion in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, 1850-1877: Protestant parochial philanthropists. Studies in American religion; v. 40. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1988.

Zanca, Kenneth J. ed. American Catholics and Slavery, 1789-1866: an anthology of primary documents. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994.

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Resistance

Abraham, Arthur. The Amistad Revolt: An Historical Legacy of Sierra Leone and the United States. Freetown, Sierra Leone: United States Information Service, [1987].

Aptheker, Herbert. Negro Slave Revolts in the United States, 1526-1860. New York: International publishers, 1939.

Best, Felton O. Black Resistance Movements in the United States and Africa, 1800-1993: oppression and retaliation. African studies; v. 38. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1995.

Bracey, John H., comp. American Slavery: The Question of Resistance. A Wadsworth series: explorations in the Black experience. Belmont, Calif., Wadsworth Pub. Co. [1971].

Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton University, 1991.

Genovese, Eugene D. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history, Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Halasz, Nicholas. The Rattling Chains; Slave Unrest and Revolt in the Antebellum South. New York, D. McKay Co. [1966].

Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Mullin, Michael. Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Oates, Stephen B. The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.

Okihio, Gary Y. In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.

Rossbach, Jeffery S. Ambivalent conspirators: John Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

Sidbury, James. Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Slave Owners and Planter Class

Allmendinger, David F. Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. New York: Oxford, 1990.

Brugger, Robert J. Beverley Tucker: Heart over Head in the Old South. Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science; 96th ser., no. 2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery. Southern biography series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War. Columbia: University of Missouri, 1992.

Franklin, John Hope. A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1976.

Gay, Dorothy Ann. The Tangled Skein of Romanticism and Violence in the Old South: The Southern Response to Abolitionism and Feminism, 1830-1861. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975.

Genovese, Eugene D. The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860. Columbia: Univeristy of South Carolina, 1992.

Greenberg, Kenneth S. Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery. New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Hughes, Henry. Selected Writings of Henry Hughes, Antebellum Southerner, Slavocrat, Sociologist. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.

Mathew, William M. Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform. Athens: University of Georgia, 1988.

Newton, James E. and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans, and Craftsmen. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Knopf, 1982.

Roark, James L. Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Norton, 1977.

Rosengarten, Theodore. Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. New York: Morrow, 198.

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Slave Trade

Ali, Abbas Ibrahim Muhammad. The British, the Slave Trade, and Slavery in the Sudan, 1820-1881. [Khartoum] Khartoum University Press, 1972.

Alpers, Edward A. The East African Slave Trade. Historical Association of Tanzania. Paper; no. 3. Nairobi, Published for the Historical Association of Tanzania by the East African Pub. House, 1967.

Alpers, Edward A. Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Anstey, Roger. The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1975.

Anstey, Roger. Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition: Essays to Illustrate Current Knowledge and Research. Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Occasional series, 2. Enl. ed. [Liverpool]: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1989.

Beachey, R. W. The Slave trade of Eastern Africa. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1976.

Bean, Richard Nelson. The British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1650-1775. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Bethell, Leslie. The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade; Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question, 1807-1869. Cambridge Latin American studies, 6. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1970.

Birmingham, David. Trade and Conflict in Angola: The Mbundu and their Neighbours under the Influence of the Portuguese, 1483-1790. Oxford studies in African affairs. Oxford, Clarendon P., 1966.

Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America. Glucester: Bristol Record Society, 1986-.

Burnside, Madeleine. Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase, ed. The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century. London, England; Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass, 1989.

Clarke, John Henrik. Christopher Columbus & the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery & the Rise of European Capitalism. Brooklyn, N.Y.: A & B Brooks, 1992.

Clarke, Richard F. (Richard Frederick). Cardinal Lavigerie and the African Slave Trade. New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969.

Collister, Peter. The Sulivans and the Slave trade. London: R. Collings, 1980.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.

Cottman, Michael H. The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie. New York: Harmony Books, 1999.

Craton, Michael. Sinews of Empire; A Short History of British Slavery. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974.

Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade; A Census. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Curtin, Philip D. Economic Change in Precolonial Africa; Senegambia in the Era of the Slave trade. [Madison] University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.

Davidson, Basil. Black Mother: The Years of the African Slave Trade. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

Dow, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970.

Duignan, Peter. The United States and Africa: A History. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press; [Stanford, Calif.]: Hoover Institution, 1984.

Elder, Melinda. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth-Century Lancaster. Krumlin, Halifax [England]: Ryburn Pub., 1992.

Eltis, David. Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Eltis, David, ed. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.

Eltis, David and David Richardson. Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. London: Frank Cass, 1997.

Emmer, P.C. The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880: Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Fage, J. D. States and Subjects in Sub-Saharan African History. Raymond Dart lectures; lecture 10. Johannesburg: Witwatersand University Press for Institute for the Study of Man in Africa and Museum of Man and Science, 1974.

Findlay, Ronald. The "Triangular Trade" and the Atlantic Economy of the Eighteenth Century: A Simple General-Equilibrium model. Essays in international finance, no. 177 (Mar. 1990. Princeton, N.J.: International Finance Section, Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, 1990.

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Slave Trade, 1858-1892: British Foreign Office: collection 541, confidential print series. Wilmington, Del.: Michael Glazier, [1977-].

Hair, P. E. H. (Paul Edward Hedley). The Atlantic Slave Trade and Black Africa. Liverpool historical essays; 1. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1989.

Harris, Joseph E. The African Presence in Asia; Consequences of the East African Slave Trade. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1971.

Hogg, Peter C. The African Slave Trade and its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles. Cass Library of African studies. General studies; no. 137. London: F. Cass, 1973.

Howard, Thomas. Black Voyage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Boston, Little, Brown, 1971.

Howell, Raymond. The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade. London: Croom Helm, 1987.

Hutchinson, Louise Daniel. Out of Africa: From West African Kingdoms to Colonization. Washington: Published for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press: [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1979.

Inkori, Joseph E. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.

Inikori, J. E. The Chaining of a Continent: Export Demand for Captives and the History of Africa South of the Sahara, 1450-1870. Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1992.

Inikori, J.E. Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies. Hutchinson University Library. Hutchinson university library for Africa. London: Hutchinson, 1982.

Jakobsson, Stiv. Am I not a Man and a Brother? British Missions and the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in West Africa and the West Indies 1786-1838. Studia missionalia Upsaliensia, 17. Lund, Gleerup, 1972.

Jennings, Judith. The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807. London: Frank Cass, 1997.

Klein Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Klein, Herbert S. The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Law, Robin. The Oyo Empire, c.1600-c.1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave trade. Oxford studies in African affairs. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Law, Robin. The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750: The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society. Oxford studies in African affairs. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

LeVeen, E. Phillip. British Slave Trade Suppression Policies, 1821-1865. Dissertations in European economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1977.

Manning, Patrick. Slave Trades, 1500-1800. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996.

Manning, Patrick. Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960. African studies series; 30. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Mannix, Daniel Pratt. Black Cargoes; A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865. New York, Viking Press, 1962.

Miller, Joseph Calder. Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Northrup, David. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Problems in world history. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1994.

Oldfield, J. R. (John R.). Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade, 1787-1807. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 1995.

Page, Willie F. The Dutch Triangle: The Netherlands and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1621-1664. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

Palmer, Colin A. Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700-1739. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Polanyi, Karl. Dahomey and the Slave trade; An Analysis of an Archaic Economy. American Ethnological Society. Monograph; 42. Seattle, University of Washington Press [1966].

Postma, Johannes. The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Price, Jacob M. The Atlantic Frontier of the thirteen Colonies and States. Brookfield: Variorum, 1996.

Rawley, James A. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New York: Norton, 1981.

Reynolds, Edward. Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. London; New York: Allison & Busby, 1985.

Richardson, David. The Bristol Slave Traders: A Collective Portrait. Local history pamphlets; no. 60. Bristol: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1985.

Rodney, Walter. West Africa and the Atlantic Slave-Trade. Historical Association of Tanzania. Paper; no. 2. Nairobi, Published for the Historical Association of Tanzania by the East African Pub. House, 1967.

Sanchez, Joseph P. Explorers, Traders, and Slavers: Forging the Old Spanish Trail, 1678-1850. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997.

Solow, Barbara L. British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams. Studies in interdisciplinary history. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Solow, Barbara L. Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. Cambridge, Mass.: W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University; Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Stein, Robert Louis. The French Slave trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.

Tadman, Michael. Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Thomas, Hugh. Slave Trade. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

University of Edinburgh. Centre of African Studies. The Transatlantic Slave Trade from West Africa; [papers and discussion reports contributed to a seminar held June 4th-5th 1965. Edinburgh, 1965].

Verger, Pierre. Bahia and the West African Trade, 1549-1851. Nigeria: Published for the Institute of African Studies by Ibadan University Press, 1964.

Verger, Pierre. Trade Relations between the Bight of Benin and Bahia from the 17th to 19th century. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press, 1976.

Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. London: HarperCollins, 1992.

Walvin, James. England, Slaves, and Freedom, 1776-1838. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986.

Walvin, James. Slaves and Slavery: The British Colonial Experience. Manchester [England]; New York: Manchester University Press, 1992.

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Slavery in the Contemporary World

Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Kuklin, Susan. Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

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Underground Railroad

Brandt, Nat. The Town that Started the Civil War. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990.

Buckmaster, Henrietta. Let my People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.

Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1961.

Hunter, Carol M. To Set the Captives Free: The Reverend Jermain Loguen and the Struggle for Freedom in Central New York, 1835-1872. New York: Garland, 1993.

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Urban Slavery

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

Goldin, Claudia Dale. Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860: A Quantitative History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860. A Galaxy book, GB 209. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1967.

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Women

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Women and the Family in a Slave Society. Articles on American Slavery; vol. 9. New York: Garland Pub., 1989.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Gaspar, David Barry and Darlene Clark Hine, eds. More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

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

Jones, Jacqueline. "My Mother was Much a Woman": Black Women, Work and the Family under Slavery. Working paper; no. 45. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1980.

Lebsock, Suzanne. Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860. New York, Norton, 1984.

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