Recommended
Books on Slavery
Uncivil
Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery
by David Horowitz
The idea that taxpayers should pay reparations to African Americans
for the damages of slavery and segregation is quickly becoming a central
demand of some civil rights leaders. It has the backing of important black
politicians like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), distinguished black intellectuals
like Henry Louis Gates and activists like Randall Robinson, who led the
successful boycott movement against South Africa a decade ago. The Chicago
City Council has overwhelmingly endorsed the concept and municipalities
and state governments around the country are considering giving it support.
The
Publisher
Hardcover - 147 pages 1st edition (December 2001)
Encounter Books; ISBN: 1893554449 |
| |
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
by Jacqueline L. Tobin, et al
Listed under Underground Railroad
Up
from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics)
by Booker T. Washington, William L. Andrews (Editor)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was born into slavery. After
the Civil War he obtained a basic education while working as a coal miner
and other jobs. After many difficulties, he studied at Hampton Institute
in Virginia (1872-1875). He became an instructor at Hampton and in
1881 was asked to start a Negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama. He
started Tuskegee Institute with one instructor, himself, and 30 students
in borrowed quarters. The Publisher
Paperback - 240 pages (February 2000)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0192835629
Uncle
Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hardcover 1996 edition (May 1996)
Modern Library; ISBN: 0679602003
The Bondwoman's Narrative
by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor)
Listed under Slave Narratives
Many
Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin
When Americans look at slavery, they conjure up images of tired black
bodies picking cotton from sunup to sundown under Southern skies. That
image is partly true, but, as the noted history professor Ira Berlin details,
the lives of slaves in America's racist system were complex and diverse.
"Viewing slavery through the perspective of what slaves did most of the
time," Berlin writes, "provides a means to draw some fundamental distinctions
and find some essential commonalities among the various experiences of
North America." Berlin reveals the color-caste codes of the Afro-Creoles
of the Chesapeake, the survival of African culture in the South Carolina-Georgia-Florida
coastal area, and the intermingling of Africans with French and Spanish
in the Mississippi Delta area. He weaves a woeful and wondrous tale of
the mores, occupations, conflicts, wars, and rebellions that made up the
ongoing relationships between masters and slaves. Many Thousands Gone is
an excellent companion to Philip D. Morgan's Slave Counterpoint, revealing
the influence the "peculiar institution" of slavery had on those of African
and European descent alike. --Eugene Holley Jr. Amazon.com
Hardcover: 497 pages
Belknap Pr; ISBN: 0674810929; (September 1998)
Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk
by William Dusinberre
"... arguably the most careful and vivid account to date of how slavery
functioned on a single cotton plantation."
Listed under James Polk
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
by Robert W. Harms
Listed under The Slave Trade
Books
on Slavery - Alphabetical Listing
An
Abolitionist in the Appalachian South : Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery,
Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846
by Ezekiel Birdseye, Durwood Dunn
Hardcover - 320 pages (July 1997)
Univ of Tennessee Pr; ISBN: 0870499645
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad
by Marlene Targ Brill, Janice Lee Porter (Illustrator)
Listed under Underground Railroad
Africa
in America : Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and
the British Caribbean, 1736-1831 (Blacks in the New World)
by Michael Mullin
Paperback (March 1995)
Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref); ISBN: 0252064461
African
American Women During the Civil War
(Studies in African American History and Culture)
by Ella Forbes
Hardcover - 250 pages (August 1998)
Garland Pub; ISBN: 0815331150
All
on Fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by Henry Mayer
Hardcover - 704 pages 1 edition (October 1998)
St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0312187408
American
Antislavery Songs : A Collection and Analysis (Documentary Reference Collections)
Vicki Lynn Eaklor
Hardcover / Published 1988
American
Negro Slave Revolts
by Herbert Aptheker
Paperback 5th edition (August 1983)
International Publishers Co; ISBN: 0717806057
American
Slavery, American Freedom
by Edmund S. Morgan
Book Description: "If it is possible to understand the American paradox,
the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin,"
writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study
of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key
to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was
both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state
in the country. With a new introduction. Winner of the Francis Parkman
Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award.
Paperback from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: October, 2003 |
| |
American
Slavery American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
by Edmund S. Morgan
Paperback Reissue edition (April 1995)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393312887
The
Antislavery Appeal : American Abolitionism After 1830
by Ronald G. Walters
Paperback (February 1985)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393954447
Arguing About Slavery : The Great Battle in the United States Congress
by William Lee Miller
Listed under John Quincy Adams
Autobiography
of a Female Slave (Banner Book Series)
Mattie Griffith, et al
Hardcover / Published 1998
The
Black Abolitionist Papers : The United States, 1859-1865 Vol 5
C. Peter Ripley(Editor)
Hardcover / Published 1992
The
Black Abolitionist Papers : Canada, 1830-1865 Vol 2
C. Peter Ripley
Hardcover / Published 1986
But
We Have No Country : The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance
Ella Forbes
Hardcover / Published 1998
Church and Slave in Perry County, Missouri, 1818-1865 (Studies in
American Religion, Vol 21)
Stafford Poole, Douglas J Slawson
Listed under Missouri
The
Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the
American Slave States: Based upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and
Investigations
by Frederick Law Olmsted, Arthur M. Schlesinger (Editor)
(Paperback - September 1996)
Dade's Last Command
Frank Laumer, John K. Mahon
In 1835, one hundred US soldiers were killed by Seminole indians who
were aiding escaped black slaves in Florida.
Listed under Florida History
Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
Randolph Paul Runyon, William Albert Davis
Listed under Underground Railroad
Denmark
Vesey
by David Robertson
Denmark Vesey was a charasmatic ex-slave--literate, professional, and
relatively well-off--who had purchased his own freedom with the winnings
from a lottery. Inspired by the success of the revolutionary black republic
in Haiti, he persuaded some nine thousand slaves to join him in a revolt.
Amazon.com
Paperback - 240 pages (August 8, 2000)
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679762183 |
Emerson's
Antislavery Writings
Ralph Waldo Emerson, et al
Hardcover / Published 1995
Frederick Douglass : Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845 (Rhetoric and Public
Affairs Series)
Gregory P. Lampe
Listed under Frederick Douglass
From
Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South : Central
Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Joseph P. Reidy
Paperback / Published 1995
The
Fortunate Heirs of Freedom : Abolition & Republican Thought
Daniel J. McInerney
Hardcover / Published 1994
Freedom's
Champion Elijah Lovejoy
Paul Simon, Clarence Page (Designer)
Hardcover / Published 1994
George Washington and Slavery : A Documentary Portrayal
by Fritz Hirschfeld
Listed under George Washington
Glorying
in Tribulation : The Lifework of Sojourner Truth
Erlene Stetson, Linda David (Contributor)
Hardcover / Published 1994
Generations
of Captivity : A History of African-American Slaves
by Ira Berlin (Author)
(Hardcover - March 2003)
Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress
by Kara Elizabeth Walker, et al
Listed under Slave Narratives
He
Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
by Douglas R. Egerton
Hardcover - 272 pages (January 15, 2000)
Madison House Pub; ISBN: 0945612672
Holy
Warriors : The Abolitionists and American Slavery
James Brewer Stewart, Eric Foner
Paperback / Published 1997
Jacksonian
America : Society, Personality, and Politics
Edward Pessen
Paperback / Published 1985
John
Brown : A Biography (American History Through Literature)
W. E. B. Dubois, John David Smith (Editor)
A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one
of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.
In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero
whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote:
"When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand."
DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic.
Amazon.com
Hardcover - 254 pages (April 1997)
M.E.Sharpe; ISBN: 1563249715
Journal
of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Fanny Kemble, et al
Paperback / Published 1984
Justice
Accused : Antislavery and the Judicial Process
Robert M. Cover
Paperback / Published 1984
Let
My People Go : African Americans 1804-1860 (The Young Oxford History of
African Americans, V. 4)
Deborah Gray White, et al
Hardcover / Published 1996
Let My People Go : The Story of the Underground Railroad and the
Growth of the Abolition Movement (Southern Classics Series)
Henrietta Buckmaster, et al
Listed under Underground Railroad
Lincoln,
Douglas and Slavery : In the Crucible of Public Debate
David Zarefsky
Paperback / Published 1993
Marie,
or Slavery in the United States : A Novel of Jacksonian America (Race in
the Americas)
Gustave De Beaumont, et al
Paperback / Published 1998
Maroon
Societies : Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
by Richard Price (Editor)
Paperback 3rd edition (September 1996)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801854962
The
Meaning of Slavery in the North (Garland Reference Library of Social Science,
Vol 1184) (Labor in America, Vol 4)
David R. Roediger(Editor), et al
Hardcover / Published 1998
Means
and Ends in American Abolitionism : Garrison and His Critics on Strategy
and Tactics, 1834-1850
Aileen S. Kraditor
Paperback / Published 1989
Mothers
of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
(Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Drew Gilpin Faust
Hardcover / Published 1996
Mountain
Masters : Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina
John C. Inscoe
Paperback / Published 1996
My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass
Listed under Frederick Douglass
Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Penguin Classics)
Nell Irvin Painter(Editor), et al
Listed under Slave Narratives
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written
by Himself : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
Frederick Douglass
Listed under Frederick Douglass
A
Peculiar Humanism : The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of
the Old South, 1820-1850 (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
William E. Wiethoff
Hardcover / Published 1996
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic : Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment,
1772-1815
by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), William L. Andrews (Editor)
Listed under Slave Narratives
Political
Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861
Michael J. McManus
Hardcover / Published 1998
Delivery sometimes delayed.
The
Price of Freedom : Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National
Maryland
T. Stephen Whitman
Hardcover / Published 1997
Radical
Abolitionism : Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought
Lewis Perry
Paperback / Published 1995
The
Ruling Race : A History of American Slaveholders
James Oakes(Introduction)
Paperback / Published 1998
Samuel
Ringgold Ward : Christian Abolitionist (Studies in African American History
and Culture)
Ronald K. Burke
Hardcover / Published 1995
Shadrach
Minkins : From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
Gary L. Collison
Hardcover / Published 1997
Slavery
and Freedom in Delaware 1639-1865
William H. Williams
Paperback - 270 pages 0 edition (March 1999)
Scholarly Resources; ISBN: 0842028471
Slavery and the Founders : Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
by Paul Finkelman
Listed under Thomas Jefferson
Slavery
Days in Old Kentucky
Isaac Johnson, et al
Paperback / Published 1994
Delivery sometimes delayed.
Slavery,
Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic : Commerce and Compromise,
1820-1850 Vol 1
John Ashworth
Hardcover / Published 1996
Sojourner
Truth : Slave, Prophet, Legend
Carleton Mabee, et al
Paperback / Published 1995
Sojourner
Truth As Orator : Wit, Story, and Song
(Great American Orators, No. 25)
Suzanne Pullon Fitch, et al
Hardcover / Published 1997
Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
This award-winning volume takes readers inside the New Orleans slave
market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children
were packaged, priced and sold. Johnson transforms the statistics of this
chilling practice into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves,
negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. Powell's.
Listed under The Slave Trade
To
Awaken My Afflicted Brethren : David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum
Slave Resistance
Peter P. Hinks
Hardcover / Published 1996
Union
& Emancipation : Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era
David W. Blight(Editor), Brooks D. Simpson (Editor)
Hardcover / Published 1997
War
to the Knife : Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861
Thomas Goodrich
Hardcover / Published 1998
We
Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard
Belinda Hurmence(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1994
Weevils
in the Wheat : Interviews With Virginia Ex-Slaves
Charles L., Jr. Perdue, et al
Paperback: 405 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.20 x
9.03 x 6.04
Publisher: University Press of Virginia; Reprint edition
(February 1992)
ISBN: 0813913705
Wendell
Phillips : Liberty's Hero
James Brewer Stewart
Paperback: 376 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x
9.03 x 6.03
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; Reprint
edition (September 1998)
ISBN: 0807123188
William
Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery : Selections from the Liberator
(Bedford Book in History and Culture)
William E. Cain(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995
Them
Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
by William Dusinberre
(Hardcover - January 1996)
Hard
to Find and Out of Print Books on Slavery
The
Black Abolitionist Papers : The British Isles, 1830-1865 Vol 1
C. Peter Ripley(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1985
Special Order
British
Unitarians Against American Slavery, 1833-65
Charles Douglas Stange / Hardcover / Published 1984
Special Order
Courage
and Conscience : Black & White Abolitionists in Boston
Donald M. Jacobs(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1993
(Special Order)
Crusaders
and Compromisers : Essays on the Relationship of the Antislavery Struggle
to the Antebellum Party System (Contributions in American , No)
Alan M. Kraut(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1983
Out of Print - Try Used Books
Discovering
the Women in Slavery : Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past
Patricia Morton(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996
Special Order
The
Emancipation Proclamation
John Hope Franklin / Paperback / Published 1995
Special Order
The
Evangelical War Against Slavery and Caste : The Life and Times of John
G. Fee
Victor B. Howard / Hardcover / Published 1996
Special Order
Freedom
and Prejudice : The Legacy of Slavery in the United States and Brazil
Robert Brent Toplin / Hardcover / Published 1981
(Special Order)
Freedom
at Risk : The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865
Carol Wilson / Hardcover / Published 1994
(Special Order)
Freedom's Despots : The Critique of Abolition
Robert J. Loewenberg / Hardcover / Published 1986
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Henry
Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (Southern Biography Series)
Douglas Ambrose / Hardcover / Published 1997
(Special Order)
Joshua
Leavitt : Evangelical Abolitionist
Hugh Davis / Hardcover / Published 1990
(Special Order)
The
Kentucky Abolitionists in the Midst of Slavery 1854-1864 : Exiles for Freedom
Richard Sears / Hardcover / Published 1993
(Special Order)
The Lane Rebels : Evangelicalism and Antislavery in Antebellum America
(Studies in Evangelicalism ; No. 2)
Lawrence Thomas Lesick / Hardcover / Published 1980
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Lewis
Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery
Bertram Wyatt-Brown / Paperback / Published 1997
(Special Order)
Martha
Schofield and the Re-Education of the South, 1839-1916 (Studies in Women
and Religion, Vol 24)
Katherine Smedley / Hardcover / Published 1987
(Special Order)
Morality
& Utility in American Antislavery Reform
Louis S. Gerteis
Hardcover / Published 1987
Special Order
Portrait
of an Abolitionist : A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867 (Contributions
in American History, No 167)
Charles E. Heller / Hardcover / Published 1996
Special Order
By Land and by Sea : Quakers Confront Slavery and Its Aftermath in
North Carolina
Hiram H. Hilty / Paperback / Published 1993
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Bedford Series
in History and Culture (Cloth))
Kenneth S. Greenberg(Editor), Nat confes Turner
Hardcover / Published 1996
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Antebellum Black Activists : Race, Gender, and Self (Studies
in African American History and Culture)
R. J. Young / Hardcover / Published 1996
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Antislavery (Articles on American Slavery, Vol 14)
Paul Finkelman(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1990
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals, 1840-1860 : Annotated Index
of Letters in the National Antislavery Standard Vol 4
John W. Blassingame / Hardcover / Published 1984
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals, 1861-1871 : Annotated Index
of Letters in the National Antislavery Standard Vol 5
John W. Blassingame / Hardcover / Published 1984
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Be Jubilant My Feet : African American Abolitionists in the American
Missionary Association 1839-1861
Clara Merritt Deboer / Hardcover / Published 1994
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Bonds of Wickedness : American Evangelicals Against Slavery, 1770-1808
James Essig / Hardcover / Published 1982
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil : A Comparative Perspective
(Studies in African American History and Culture)
Celia M. Azevedo / Hardcover / Published 1995
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Runaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantation
by John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger
Runaway Slaves is yet another masterpiece from the esteemed African
American historian John Hope Franklin, author of the influential From Slavery
to Freedom. Along with history professor Loren Schweninger, Franklin examines
the often unexplored phenomenon of slave resistance--specifically, that
of runaway slaves. For too long, there has been a myth that slaves were
happy with their condition. Armed with the data from numerous Wanted posters,
letters, county-court petitions, and newspapers, Franklin and Schweninger
prove that slaves were in a constant state of rebellion with their masters.
The intense circle of violence between blacks and whites was marked by
property sabotage, work stoppage, assault, murder, and escape into the
North. "Perhaps the greatest impact runaways had on the peculiar institution,"
the authors suggest, "was in their defiance of the system. Masters and
slaves knew that there were blacks who were willing to do almost anything
to extricate themselves from bondage." Comprehensive in scholarship and
compelling in prose, this book sheds light on an underappreciated aspect
of the American quest for freedom. --Eugene Holley Jr. - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 512 pages (April 1999)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195084497
Out of Print - Try Used
Books |
Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball / Hardcover / Published 1998
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Free at Last : A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the
Civil War
Ira Berlin, et al / Hardcover / Published 1992
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
» Click
here for top sellers in History
| Slavery and Abolition on DVD |
|
|
|
| Slavery and Abolition on VHS |
|
|
|
|
Related
Books
