Slavery and African American History Books
American Slavery 1619-1877 - Excellent scholarly overview and analysis of slavery in America.
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South - Very well-written description and analysis of the life of a slave, formed from piecing together a variety of primary historical sources
Roll, Jordan, Roll : The World the Slaves Made - Detailed and thought provoking book on the interconnections between masters and slaves and the slave culture that surrounded these relationships.
Peculiar Institution : Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South - Scholarly work on the creation and the evolution of the institution of slavery.
Hidden in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad - Part history and part story, provides a unique approach to the description slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Roots - The well-known classic with a story so compelling that it was even made into a TV mini-series.
Israel on the Appomattox : A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War - Exceptional detail in this story about slavery in Virginia.
Plantation Society and Race Relations - Collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring various aspects of plantation slavery
Crossing the Danger Water : Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing - Collection of essays from a variety of African American writers and historical figures.
"The Slave Tag: An Artifact of Urban Slavery," South Carolina Antiques, 1984, Vol.16, Theresa Singleton

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