Slavery#Bibliography

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Surveys[edit]

Drescher, Seymour, and Stanley L. Engerman eds. A Historical Guide to World Slavery (1998), 456pp excerpt and text search
Finkelman, Paul, and Joseph Miller eds. Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1998)
Hinks, Peter, and John McKivigan, eds. Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. 2007, 2 vol 795pp; isbn 978-0-313-33142-8
Miller, Randall M., and John David Smith, eds. Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988) 862pp; authoritative articles by scholars
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study 1982
Phillips, William D. Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Atlantic Slave Trade 1984
Rodriguez, Junius P. ed. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1997)
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. 2007, 2 vol, 750pp isbn 0-313-33271-1.)
Rodriguez, Junius P. ed. Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia ( 2 vol 2007)
Rodriguez, Junius P. Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression (2008) 778pp

Topics[edit]

Davis, David Brion. Slavery and Human Progress (1984).
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 1966, intellectual history of anti-slavery
Engerman, Stanley L. Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor. Stanford University Press. 1999. online edition
Hellie, Richard. Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725 (1982)

Africa and Middle East[edit]

Campbell, Gwyn. The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia Frank Cass, 2004; online edition
Eldredge, Elizabeth A., and Fred Morton; Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier Westview Press, 1994 online edition
Lovejoy, Paul. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Cambridge UP, 1983
Miers, Suzanne, and Igor Kopytoff, eds., Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives 1977
Toledano, Ehud R. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East U. of Washington Press, 1998 online edition

Ancient[edit]

Cuffel, V. "The Classical Greek Concept of Slavery", Journal of the History of Ideas, 27 (1966), 3, 323-42 in JSTOR
Finley, Moses, ed. Slavery in Classical Antiquity (1960)
Wiedemann, Thomas. Greek and Roman Slavery 1981 online edition

West Indies, Latin America[edit]

Aimes, Hubert Hillary Suffern. A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868 (1907), 298 pages full text online
Butler, Kathleen Mary. The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica & Barbados, 1823-1843 (1995) online edition
Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006)
Eltis, David. "Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation," American Historical Review 98 (Dec. 1993): 1399-1423. in JSTOR
Green, William A. British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 Oxford UP, 1976
Higman, Barry W. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 (1995) 330 pp. online edition
Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean Oxford University Press, 1988 online edition
Stinchcombe, Arthur L. Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World Princeton University Press, 1995 online edition
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (2nd ed 2001) online edition
Ward, J. R. British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834 Oxford UP 1988

United States[edit]

Primary Sources[edit]

Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowlands, eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 5 vol Cambridge University Press, 1982. primary sources
Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies.Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
Kemble, Fanny. Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) complete edition online free
Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography . 19 vols. Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972.
Rose, Willie Lee, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (1976) 554 pages

U.S.[edit]

Baptist, Edward E. and Camp, Stephanie M. H., eds. New Studies in the History of American Slavery. U. of Georgia Press, 2006. 306 pp.
Ira Berlin. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. general survey
Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman, eds. Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution University Press of Virginia, 1983. essays by scholars
Fogel, Robert W. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery W.W. Norton, 1989. by Nobel Prize winner in economics online edition
Genovese, Eugene D. Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Pantheon Books, 1974. one of the most influential studies
Genovese, Eugene D. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South (1967)
Genovese, Eugene D. and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (1983)
Higginbotham, Jr., A. Leon In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois. Slavery and the Making of America. Oxford U. Press, 2005. 254 pp.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877 Hill and Wang, 1993. short survey
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia W.W. Norton, 1975. online edition
Morgan, Kenneth, ed. Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide. U. of Georgia Press, 2005. 456 pp.
Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 U. of North Carolina Press, 1996. online edition
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime (1918), the first major study; criticized as too friendly toward the owners. online edition
Ransom, Roger L., and Richard Sutch. One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Robinson, Armstead L. Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. U. Press of Virginia, 2005. 326 pp.
Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956),
Tadman, Michael. Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Jenny B. Wahl. "Slavery in the United States" in EH.NET (2004) online
White, Shane and White, Graham. The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech. Beacon, 2005. 241 pp.
Wood, Betty. Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 131 pp.

State and local studies[edit]

Berlin, Ira and Harris, Leslie M., ed. Slavery in New York. New Press, 2005. 403 pp.
Campbell, Randolph B. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas 1821-1865 Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Fields, Barbara J. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century Yale University Press, 1985.
Follett, Richard. The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860. Louisiana State U. Press, 2005. 290 pp.
Hurt, R. Douglas. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie University of Missouri Press, 1992
Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen; Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History Greenwood Press, 2004 online edition
Kennedy, Cynthia M. Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society. Indiana U. Press, 2005. 311 pp.
Kulikoff, Alan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Minges, Patrick N. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867 2003 deals with Indian slave owners online edition
Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Mooney, Chase C. Slavery in Tennessee Indiana University Press, 1957.
Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 Cornell University Press, 1998.
Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt" Political Science Quarterly 20 (June 1905): 257-75.
Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts". American Historical Review (July 1906): 798-815.
Phillips, Ulrich B. [http://www.dinsdoc.com/phillips-1.htm "Slave Crime in Virginia." American Historical Review 20 (January 1915): 336-40.
Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Slave Labor Problem in the Charleston District" Political Science Quarterly 22 (September 1907): 416-39.
Reidy, Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South, Central Georgia, 1800-1880 University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Ripley, C. Peter. Slaves and Freemen in Civil War Louisiana Louisiana State University Press, 1976.
Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation University Press of Florida, 2000.
Schwalm, Leslie. A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Sellers, James Benson, Slavery in Alabama University of Alabama Press, 1950 online edition
Sydnor, Charles S. Slavery in Mississippi. 1933
Takagi, Midori. Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865 University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Taylor, Joe Gray. Negro Slavery in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Historical Society, 1963.
Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion 1974.

Anti-slavery and political debates[edit]

Fehrenbacher, Don E. Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective Oxford University Press, 1981 online edition
Filler, Louis. The Crusade Against Slavery: 1830-1860 . 1960.
Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. U. of North Carolina Press, 1997. online edition
Striner, Richard. Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. Oxford U. Press, 2006. 295 pp.

Historiography[edit]

Blight, David W. "The World the Slave Traders Made: Is there a Postrevisionism in Slavery Historiography?" Reviews in American History, 1991 19#1 pp 37-42 in JSTOR
Boles, John B. and Evelyn T. Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham (1987).
Davis, David Brion. "Slavery and the Post-World War II Historians," Daedalus (1974), vol 103#2, pp 1-16
Davis, David Brion. "Looking at Slavery from Broader Perspectives" American Historical Review (2000) v 105#2 pp 452-66.
Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E., eds. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. New Press, 2006. 272 pp.
Richard H. King, "Marxism and the Slave South", American Quarterly 29 (1977), 117-31. focus on Eugene Genovese
Peter Kolchin, "American Historians and Antebellum Southern Slavery, 1959-1984", in William J. Cooper, Michael F. Holt, and John McCardell , eds., A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald (1985), 87-111
James M. McPherson et al., Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays (1971).
Peter J. Parish; Slavery: History and Historians Westview Press. 1989 online edition

Historical fiction[edit]

Edward P. Jones. The Known World New York: Amistad, 2003. ISBN 0060557559 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.