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Abrahams, Roger D. and John F. Szwed, eds.. After Africa: Extracts
from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, their
Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1983. CYP, RGC: F 2131 .A47
Adams, Nehemiah. A South-side View of Slavery: or, Three Months
at the South in 1854. 3rd ed. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat
Press, 1969. NRG, RGC: E 449 .A216
Adler, Mortimer, ed. The Negro in American History. 3 vols.
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1972. EVC,
RGC, RVS: E 185 .N4 1972
Albert, Octavia V. Rogers. The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte
Brooks and Other Slaves. (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century
Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
RVS E 444 .A33 A3 1988
Andrews, William L., ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black
Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. (Religion
in North America.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
(The three are Jarena Lee [b.1783], Zilllpha Elaw [b. ca. 1790],
and Lulia A. J. Foote [1823-1900].) NRG, RVS: BV 3780 .S57 1986
Appiah, Anthony, ed. Early African-American Classics. New
York: Bantam Books, 1990. (Content: Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; selections from Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl; selections from Up from Slavery;
selections from The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.)
RVS E 185 .E135 1990
Baker, T. Lindsey, and Julie P. Baker, eds. Till Freedom Cried
Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. (Clayton Wheat Williams
Texas Life Series.) College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1997. (Oral histories of persons residing in Oklahoma at
the time of the interviews but who had been slaves in Texas before
their emancipation. The interviews were conducted as part of the
Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s.) NRG, RVS: E 444 .T55 1997
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. The Destruction of Slavery.
(Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.) New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. NRG, RGC, RVS E 185.2
.F88 SER. 1 V. 1
Berlin, Ira. Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of
African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era. New York: New
Press, 1997. RGC: E 185.2 .F27 1997
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. Free at Last: A Documentary History
of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War. New York: The New Press,
1992. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 185.2 .F8 1992
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York: The New Press, 1998. (Transcriptions of interviews made in the 1930s with surviving ex-slaves. (Part of a project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration.) Material arranged topically: "The Faces of Power: Slaves and Owners;" "Work and Slave Life;" Family Life and Slavery;" "Slave Culture;" and "Slaves No More." An appendix contains the text of the radio documentary, "Remembering Slavery.") RVS: E 443 .R46 1998
Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of
Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. RGC, RVS: E 444
.S57
Blockson, Charles L., ed. The Underground Railroad. New
York: Prentice-Hall, 1987. (First-hand accounts of escapes by
slaves to/through the North.) CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E
450 .B66 1987
Bontemps, Arna, comp. Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1969. (Contents: The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African, Written by Himself; The Fugitive Blacksmith;
or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of
a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State
of Maryland, and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom;
or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.) NRG,
RGC: E 444 .B67 1969
Botkin, B. A., ed. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. (A selection and integration
of excepts and complete narratives from the Slave Narrative Collection
of the Federal Writers' Project.) PIN, RVS: E 444 .F26 1945
Brown, Thrasher, ed. "Dear Master": Letters of a
Slave Family. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. RVS:
E 444 .D42 1990
Brown, William Wells. The Narrative of William W. Brown, a
Fugitive Slave. And a Lecture Delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery
Society of Salem, 1847. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub.
Co., 1969. RGC E 444 .B88
Clayton, Ronnie W. Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the
Louisiana Writers' Project. (University of Kansas Humanistic
Studies, No. 57.) New York: Peter Lang, 1990. RVS: E 445 .L8 C57
1990
Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President
of the Underground Railroad . . . . New York: AMS Press, 1971.
NRG: E 450 .C65
Collected Black Women's Narratives. (Schomburg Library
of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988. (Narratives by Nancy Prince, H. Mattison, Bethany
Veney, and Susie King Taylor.) RVS: E 185.96 .C64 1988
Conneau, Theophile. A Slaver's Log Book: or 20 Years' Residence
in Africa. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976. RVS:
HT 1322 .C59
Davis, Clarence T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. The Slave's
Narrative. Oxford, Engl.: Oxford University Press, 1985. CYP,
EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC: E 444 .S575 1985
Davis, Edwin Adams. The Barber of Natchez; Wherein a Slave
is Freed and Rises to a Very High Standing. . . . Edited by
William Ransom Hogan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1973. NRG E 185.97 .J697 D3 1973
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights.
(Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies.) Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. (Compilation of writings and speeches.
Douglass was a strong supporter of women's rights in the nineteenth
century, and most especially of the rights of African-American
women.) RVS: HQ 1426 .D82 1976
Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Edited
by William L. Andrews. (Blacks in the New World.) Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1987. (Written in 1855.) CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC,
RVS: E 449 .D738 1987
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Edited by Harold Bloom. (Modern Critical Interpretations.) New
York: Chelsea House, 1988. RVS: E 449 .D7493 F74 1988. (RGC has
a copy of a different edition. The call number is E 449.D74905
1960. PIN and RVS have copies of a different edition. The call
number is E 449 .D749 1982.)
Douglass, Frederick. The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader.
Edited by William L. Andrews. New York: Oxford University Press,
1996. (Includes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
in its entirety, along with the oration, "What to the Slave
is the Fourth of July ?" Also has selections from other writings.
From the cover: Provides "the most complete, diverse, and
personally revealing record available of nineteenth-century black
America's most celebrated writer.") RVS: E 449 .D749 1996
Falconbridge, Alexander. An Account of the Slave Trade on the
Coast of Africa. New York: AMS Press, 1973. RVS: HT 1321 .F3
1973
Filler, Louis. The Rise and Fall of Slavery in America.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: J. S. Ozer, 1980. (Part I is a series
of secondary source essays. Part II is a series of primary source
documents.) NRG, RGC, RVS: E 441 .F54 1980
Foner, Philip S., and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. The Black Worker:
A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol.
1: The Black Worker to 1869. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple
University Press, 1978. RGC, RVS: E 185.8 .B553, V. 1.
Foner, Philip S., and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. Black Workers:
A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present. Philadelphia,
Penn.: Temple University Press, 1989. (Abridged version of the
8-vol.The Black Worker: A Documentary History from Colonial
Times to the Present. The first twenty-nine documents deal
with the time period of this course. For a larger compilation
of documents on this subject see entry just previous to this one.)
EVC: HD 8081 .A65 1989
Forten, Charlotte L. The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke.
Edited by Brenda Stevenson. (Schomburg Collection of Nineteenth-Century
Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
(Author (1837-1914), born into an affluent and politically active
black family in Philadelphia, was an African-American scholar,
reformer, teacher and writer. Taught refugee slaves at Port Royal,
S.C., during Civil War. Journals cover 1854-1864 and 1885-1892.)
RGC: LA 2317 .F67 A3 1989
[Gale Research.] DISCovering Multicultural America. Detroit,
Mich.: Gale Research, 1997. (Database on the World-Wide Web. 350
primary source documents covering all of the scope of United States
history. Includes documents about African Americans in the period
covered by this course. Select "Significant Documents,"
then de-select all groups except African Americans. Then click
on "Search." Some of the documents are excerpts. At
present, can only be accessed from a computer in an ACC facility.
Students can do this from any Learning Resource Center or computer
lab.) All ACC LRCs: <http://galenet.gale.com/m/mcp/db/dma/>.
For assistance, see a reference librarian or other LRC personnel.
Gates, Henry, ed. Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Penguin,
1987. (Contents: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; The History of Mary Prince,
a West Indian Slave; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an African Slave; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.) NRG:
E 444 .C63 1987
Gilbert, Olive. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Edited by
Margaret Washington. New York: Vintage, 1993. (A dictated autobiography
written by Olive Gilbert.) EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 185.97 .T8
G55 1993. (Another edition is at RGC and RVS.)
Grant, Joanne, ed. Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses,
1619 to the Present. 2nd ed. N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1983.
NRG, RVS: E 185 .B585 1983
Gunther, Lenworth, ed. Black Image: European Eyewitness Accounts
of Afro-American Life. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press,
1978. (Relevant documents in the first three sections.) CYP, NRG:
E 185 .B58
Halliburton, Warren J., comp. Historic Speeches of African
Americans. (The African-American Experience.) New York: Franklin
Watts, 1993. (First eight speeches are relevant to History 1613.
Subjects include Slavery, efforts to recolonize American slaves
to Africa, likely effects of emancipation, women's rights [Sojourner
Truth], and Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation.) NRG,
RGC: E 184.6 .H57 1993
Hine, William C., comp. Slavery in the United States. New
York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. (Portfolio containing replicas
of contemporary documents and other materials.) RGC: E 441 .S634
Holley, Sallie. A Life for Liberty: Anti-Slavery and Other
Letters of Sallie Holley. Edited by John White Chadwick. New
York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. RGC: E 449 .H73 1969
Jackson, Rebecca. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson,
Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Edited by Jean Humez. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. RGC: BX 9771 .J3 1981
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. CYP, EVC, PIN, RGC, RVS:
E 444 .J17 A3 1988 (Other editions of this title are at NRG and
RGC. See catalog for details.)
Johnson, Isaac. Slavery Days in Old Kentucky. Edited by
Cornel Breinhart. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
EVC: E 444 .J64 1994.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years and
Slave and Four Years in the White House. (Schomburg Library
of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988. RVS: E 457.15 .K26 1988
Larison, Cornelius Wilson. Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the
Slav who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand her Fredom.. (Schomburg
Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988. RVS: E 444 .D83 L37 1988
Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary
History. New York: Vintage Books, 1973. CYP, EVC, PIN, RVS:
E 185.86 .L4 1973
Lester, Julius, comp. To Be a Slave. New York: Dial Press,
1968. (A compilation of reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves
about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the
Civil War and into the early twentieth century.) NRG: E 444 .L47
Love, Nat. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known
in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick." (Blacks
in the American West.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1995. (The first fifteen chapters are relevant to this course.
Author was a former slave from Tennessee. Only black cowboy to
write of his experiences driving cattle up the Chisholm Trail
out of Texas. Also recounts adventures in Arizona and Dakota territories,
etc.) NRG: F 594 .L89 1995
Malvin, John. North into Freedom: The Autobiography of John
Malvin, Free Negro, 1795-1880. Edited by Allan Peskin. Kent,
Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988. RGC: E 185.97 .M26 A3
1988
Mellon, James, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember. New
York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. PIN: E 444 .B95 1990
Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words: A History of the American
Negro. 3 vols. New York: Crowell, 1964-67. Vol. 1: NRG E 185
.M54 V.1. Vol. 2: RVS E 185 .M54 V.2. Vol. 3: NRG: E 185 .M54
V.3
Meyer, Brantz. Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True
Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold,
Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea, as Told in the Year
1854 to Brantz Mayer. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. Garden City,
N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., 1928. RGC, RVS: HT 1322 .M3 1928
Miller, Randall M., ed. Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family.
Brown Thrasher edition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
("Fullest known record left by an American slave family."
More than 200 letters written by two generations of the Skipworth
family. First series written by freed emigrés in Liberia;
second by family members who were slaves on an Alabama plantation.
Years covered: 1834-1865.) RVS: E 444 .D42 1990
Mintz, Steven, ed. African American Voices: The Life Cycle
of Slavery. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993. (Contents:
Eight parts: Enslavement, The Middle Passage, Arrival, Conditions
of Life, Childhood, Family, Religion, Punishment, Resistance,
Flight, and Emancipation.) NRG: E 443 .A37 1993
Mullin, Michael, ed. American Negro Slavery: A Documentary
History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976.
NRG: E 441 .A577 1976
Nalty, Bernard C., and Morris J. MacGregor, eds. Blacks in
the Military: Essential Documents. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly
Resources, 1981. (Materials relevant to History 1613 are on pp.
3-49. Earliest dated 1639, latest, 1877.) NRG: WB 418K .A47 B55
1981
Northrup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. (Library of Southern
Civilization.) Edited by Sue L. Eakin and Joseph Logsdon. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. (Reprint of the
1853 ed.) NRG, RGC: E 444 .N87 1968
Perdue, Charles L., Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips,
eds. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves.
Charlotte: University Press of Virginia, 1992.(Interviews conducted
in the 1930s by an all-black unit of the Virginia Writers' Project.
All 159 surviving interviews are included.) RGC: E 444 .W37 1992
Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography.
Vols. 1, 4, and 5. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.
(Vol. 1 is an extended essay, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making
of the Black Community. The other volumes are transcriptions
of narratives prepared by the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-38.
Vols. 4 and 5 are Texas narratives. The complete set [42 volumes,
including supplements to the original set] is in UT's PCL Stacks,
call number E 3441 A58.) NRG E 441 .A58 Vols. 1, 4, and 5. RGC:
E 441 .A58 Vols. 4 and 5
[Research Publications.] The African-American Experience.
(Research Publications' American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.:
Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1996. (A computer
database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searchable collection
of primary sources related to African Americans in American history.)
RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC
personnel for assistance.) Also in the RVS Computer Center.
Ripley, C. Peter., ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [var. pub. dates.] RGC:
E 449 .B624 1985 [plus the vol. no.] Vol. 1 The British Isles,
1830-1865, 1985. Vol. 2 Canada, 1830-1865, 1986. Vol.
3 The United States, 1830-1846, 1991. Vol. 4 The United
States, 1847-1858, 1991. Vol. 5 The United States, 1859-1865,
1992.
Romero, Patricia W., ed. I Too Am America: Documents from 1619
to the Present. (International Library of Afro-American Life
and History.) Cornwells Heights, Pa.: Publishers Agency, 1976.
RVS: E 185 .I58 1976. (Another edition is at RVS. The call number
is E 185 .R76 1970.)
Sernett, Milton C., ed. Afro-American Religious History: A
Documentary Witness. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
1985. RVS: BR 563 .N4 A37
Six Women's Slave Narratives. (Schomburg LIbrary of Nineteenth-Century
Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
(Narratives by Mary Prince, "Old Elizabeth," L. S. Thompson
[about Mattie J. Jackson], Lucy A. Delany, Kate, Drumgoold, and
Annie L. Burton.) RVS: E444 .S59 1989
Starobin, Robert S., ed. Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American
Slaves. M. Weiner, 1988. RVS: E 444 .B62 1988. NRG E 444 .S82
1974 (Another copy, with different publication data and call number,
is at NRG: E 444 .S82 1974.)
Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in
the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. RGC:
E 185.86 .W43 1984
Teamoh, Goerge. God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography
of George Teamoh. Edited by F. N. Boney, and others. Macon,
Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1990. CYP: E 185.93 V8 T438 1990
The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey. Introduction by John
Oliver Killens. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1970. (Reprint of
the 1822 edition. Records trial of a former slave who plotted
a slave insurrection and attack on Charleston, South Carolina,
in 1822.) RVS: KF 223 .V4 K4 1970
Turner, Nat. The Confession, Trial, and Execution of Nat Turner,
the Negro Insurrectionist . . . . New York: AMS Press, 1975.
NRG: F 232 .S7 T9 1975
Tyler, Ronnie, and Lawrence R. Murphy, eds. The Slave Narratives
of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Encino Press, 1974. NRG, RGC: E 445
.T47 S52. (A reprint is also available at RGC and RVS. Austin,
Tex.: The State House Press, 1997. Same call number except that
1997 is added at the end.)
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1965. (The first five chapters relate to History 1613.)
RVS: E 185.97 .W3164 Another edition, with different publication
data, is at RGC: E 185.97 W3163 1963. Another book, (with different
publication data) contains this work and two others, is at RVS:
E 185.97 W278 1965a. Another version is at NRG: E 185.97 .W3164
1959
White, George, and John Jea. Black Itinerants of the Gospel:
The Narratives of John Jea and George White. Edited by Graham
Russell Hodges. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1993. (Author was
born in 1764. "Brief account of the life, experience, travels
and Gospel labours of George White, an African" and "The
life, history, and unparalleled sufferings of John Jea, the African
preacher" were evidently written by Jea, who was born in
1773. Both men were African-American preachers.) RGC: BR 563 .N4
W49 1993
Wish, Harvey, ed. Slavery in the South: A Collection of Contemporary
Accounts of the System of Plantation Slavery in the Southern United
States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (Materials
of American History Series.) New York: Noonday Press, 1964. CYP:
E 441 .W78 1964
Yetman, Norman R., ed. Voices from Slavery. New York: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1970. (Selections from the Slave Narrative
Collection of the Federal Writers' Project.) NRG, RGC: E 444 .Y42
(See also: Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Sectionalism,
1829-1861; The Civil War; Reconstruction; Women in United States
History, 1492-1877.)