The following list is a selected bibliography of materials that cover the topic of Slavery in the Southern United States. Though not comprehensive, this list contains books written by those who were enslaved and scholars whose research helped to make the voice of millions of enslaved Blacks heard. Many of the books on this list were published in the 1980s and later. There are a few, however, that were published earlier. The list is organized by topic, and then organized by author's last name.

Tamika Maddox
December 21, 2004

History-General

Appiah, Anthony and Henry Louis Gates. Africana: the Encyclopedia of the
African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of Negro People. 7 vols. New York:
Citadel Press/Carol Pub., 1994.

Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: A Brief History of Black America.
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1982.

Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans.
8th ed. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Newman, Richard. Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American
Bibliographies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Slave Trade 

Clarke, John Henrik.  Slave Trade and Slavery.  New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

030841542

Davidson, Basil.  The African Slave Trade.  Boston: Back Bay Books, 1980.

0316174386

Du Bois, W. E. B.  The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States.  Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1970.

LC70-136148

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

0670001740

Slavery-General

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

Blassingame, John. The Slave Community, Plantation Life in the Antebellum
South. New York, 1974.

Campbell, Edward D. C. and Kim York. Before Freedom Came: African
American Life in the Antebellum South. Richmond: The Museum; 1991.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.

Conniff, Michael. Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Finkelman, Paul. Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A
Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

Fogel, Robert William. The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

Gutman, Herbert. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1825. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro,
1550-1812. Chapel Hill, NC., 1968.

Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Litwack, Leon, ed. and August Meier, ed. Black Leaders of the Nineteenth
Century. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Lowance, Jr, Mason. A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in
America, 1776-1865. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Mellon, James. Bullwhip Days: The Slave Remembers, an Oral History. New
York, NY: Avon Books, 1990.

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

Slavery-Americas

Thompson, Vincent B.  The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas, 1441-1900.  New York: Longman, 1987.

0582642388

Slavery-Caribbean

Bush, Barbara.  Slave Woman in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838. London, UK: Heinemann, 1990.

0852550588

Slavery-Insurrections

Aptheker, Herbert.  American Negro Slave Revolts.  New York, NY: International Publishers, 1993.

 0717806057

Aptheker, Herbert.  Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion.  New York: Grove Press, 1966.

OCLC20545175

Campbell, Mavis C.  The Maroons of Jamaica 1655-1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal.  Trenton: African World Press, 1990.

0865430969

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

0807821136

James, C. L. R.  The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.  New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1963.

394702425

Katz, Johnathan.  Resistance at Christiana:  The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania.  New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974.

0690003072

Katz, William Loren.  Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance.  New York, NY: Macmillian, 1990.

0689314930

Price, Richard.  Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 1979.

9780801854965

Slavery-South America

Degler, Carl N.  Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and The United States.  New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1971.

LC73-130946

Freyre, Gilberto.  The Masters and the Slaves.  New York, NY: Knopf, 1956.

0394301943

Slavery-United States

Blassingame, John W.  The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979.

0195025636

Dumond, Dwight.  Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1961.

OCLC: 36335970

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

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

0394716523

Genovese, Eugene D.  The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South.  New York, NY: Random House, 1967.

394704002

Huggins, Nathan Irvin.  Black Odyssey: The African American Ordeal in Slavery.  New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1979.

0394726871

Johnson, Michael and Roark James L.  Black Masters.  New York, NY: Norton, 1984.

0393019063

Stampp, Kenneth M.  The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.  New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1955.

394702530

Walker, David.  David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of  the United States of America .  New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1965.

OCLC37703819

Wood, Peter.  Black Majority.  New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1974.

0393007774

Bibliographies

Olson, James S. Slave Life in America: A Historiography and Selected
Bibliography. Lanham: University Press of America, 1983.

Smith, John David. Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary
Bibliography, 1865-1980. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Free Blacks

Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Koger, Larry. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina,
1790-1860. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Narratives

Andrews, William L. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Civitas Anthology of African
American Slave Narratives. Washington, D.C.: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1999.

Blassingame, John W. ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches,
Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave, Written by Himself. New York: Norton, 1997.

Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1988.

Resistance

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York: International
Publishers, 1974.

Blight, David W. Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and
Memory. Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books in Association with the
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2004.

Cheek, William F. Black Resistance Before the Civil War. Beverly Hills: Glencoe
Press, 1970.

Egerton, Douglas R. He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1999.

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

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

Greenberg, Kenneth S. The Confession of Nat Turner and Related Documents.
Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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

Stryon, William. Confessions of Nat Turner. New York: Modern Library, 1994.

Women

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

Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday
Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Gasper, David B. et al. More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the
Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1993.

Hine, Darlene Clark et al. Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the
Americas. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New
York: Vintage Books, 1972.

White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I A Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
New York W.W. Norton, 1999.

Reconstruction-United States, 1865-1877

Bentley, George R.  A History of the Freedman's Bureau.  Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 1955.

LC55-9469

Du Bois, W. E. B.  Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880.  New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 1935.

Logan, Rayford W.  Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson.  New York, NY: Collier Books, 1965.