History 253-01                                                                                                        Professor Cohen
Slavery and Race in American History                                                                      Fall 2001


SLAVERY:  A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


This bibliography is designed mainly to help you find primary works that reflect the views of southern slaveholders.  It also lists additional works that may provide you with context for understanding the primary source that you select.

  1. Primary Sources:  Works that Focus Especially On Slavery or on the Slave Trade from the Perspective of the Masters or Traders

       Andrews, Charles Wesley.  Memoir of Mrs. Ann R. Page 1807-1875.  New York:  Garland Publishers, 1987.
        Bleser, Carol, ed.  Secret and Sacred:  The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder.  New York, 1988.
       Burwell, Letitia M.  A Girl's Life in Virginia:  Before the War.  N.Y.:  Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1895].
       Catterall, Helen.  Judicial Cases Concerning Slavery and the Negro.  Washington, D.C., 1926.  5 v.
       Chesnut, Mary.  Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward.  New York, 1981.
       Davis, Edwin Adams, ed.  Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, 1836-1844 as Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow.  N.Y., 1943.
       Donnan, Elizabeth.  Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America.  New York:  Octagon Books, 1965. 4 v.
       Fitzhugh, George.  Sociology for the South.  1854; New York, 1964.
       Jones, George Noble.  Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones, edited by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and James David Glunt.  St. Louis, Missouri:  Historical Society, 1927.
       Marszalek, John F., ed.  The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
       Myers, Robert M., ed.  The Children of Pride:  A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War.  New Haven, 1972.
       Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 1877-1934.  Plantation and Frontier, 1649-1863.  New York, B. Franklin, [1969]. 2 v.
       Rosengarten, Theodore.  Tombee:  Portrait of a Cotton Planter.  New York, 1986.
       Ruffin, Edmund, The Diary of Edmund Ruffin . Edited by William Kauffman Scarborough.  Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1972.  3 vols.
       Smedes, Susan Dabney, Memorials of a Southern Planter.  Baltimore, 1887.
       Windley, Lathan A.  Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790, compiled by Lathan A. Windley.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.  4 v.
       Williams, John Rogers, ed.  Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal and Letters, 1767-1774.  Princeton, N.J. : The University library, 1900-34.  2 Vols.

II.    Primary Sources:  The Papers of Leading White Southerners

       Calhoun, John C. Papers of John C. Calhoun, edited by Robert L. Meriwether and W. Edwin Hemphill.  Columbia, SC:  University of South Carolina Press, 1959-.
       Jackson, Andrew, Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, edited by John Spencer Bassett.  Washington, D. C.:  Carnegie Institution, 1926-33. New York, Kraus Reprint, 1969. 7 v.
       Jefferson, Thomas, Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book with commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings, ed. Edwin M. Betts.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.
       Jefferson, Thomas, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , ed. Julian P. Boyd.  Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1950-.  v.1-22.
       Laurens, Henry, The Papers of Henry Laurens . Philip M. Hamer, editor.  Columbia, University of South Carolina Press [1968-. v.1-7, 1771
       Madison, James, Papers of James Madison , edited by William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachal. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1962-. v.1-10.
       Washington, George, The Diaries of George Washington, 1748-1799, edited by John C. Fitzpatrick.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. 4 v.
       Washington, George, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, John C. Fitzpatrick, editor.  Washington, D.C., 1931-44. 39 v.

III.    Primary Sources:  Works Dealing With Plantation Life But Written by Black and White Non-Planters.

       Berlin, Ira ed.  Freedom:  A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867:  Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives.  Cambridge, 1985.
       Bibb, Henry, b. 1815.  Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave.  New York, 1849.
       Blassingame, John.  Slave Testimony, Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies.  Baton Rouge, LA, 1977.
       Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884.  Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave.  Boston:  The Anti-slavery office, 1847.
       Douglass, Frederick.  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave , ed. David Blight.  1845; rpr. Boston:  St. Martin's Press, 1993.
       Hogan, William Ransom and Edwin Adams Davis, eds.  William Johnson's Natchez:  The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro.  1951; repr. Port Washington, N.Y.:  Kennikat Press, 1968.  2 vols.  
       Jacobs, Donald M., ed.  Index to "The American Slave".  Westport, Ct., 1981. 
       Johnson, Michael P.  No Chariot Let Down:  Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War.  Chapel Hill, 1984.
       Kemble, Frances Anne.  Journal of a Residence on A Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ed. John A. Scott.  Athens, GA:  University of Georgia Press, 1984.
       Mullin, Michael, ed.  American Negro Slavery:  A Documentary History.  Columbia, S.C., 1976.
       Northup, Solomon, b. 1808. Twelve Years a Slave. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
       Olmsted, Frederick Law.  The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States , ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger.  New York, Knopf, 1953.
       Osofsky, Gilbert, ed.  Puttin' On Ole Massa; The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1969.
       Rawick, George, ed.  The American Slave:  A Composite Autobiography.  32 vols.  These volumes are the recollections of ex-slaves collected by the WPA in the 1930's.  Volume I, From Sunrise to Sunup:  The Making of the Black Community gives Rawick's interpretation of the meaning of the data provided in subsequent volumes.

IV.    Secondary Sources of Special Significance

       Aptheker, Herbert.  American Negro Slave Revolts.  New York, 1943.
       Berlin, Ira.  Many  Thousands Gone:  The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1998.
       Blassingame, John.  The Slave Community, Plantation Life in the Antebellum South.  New York, 1974. 
       Elkins, Stanley.  Slavery:  A Problem in American Institutioanl and Intellectual Life.  3rd ed., Chicago, 1976.
       Davis, David B.  Slavery and Human Progress .  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1984.
       Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman.  Time on the Cross.  Boston, 1974.  2 vols.
       Genovese, Eugene D.  Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.  New York, 1974.
       Gutman, Herbert.  The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1825.  New York, 1976. 
       Harding, Vincent.  There is a River .  New York, 1981.
       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, 1993.
       Parish, Peter J.  Slavery:  History and Historians.  New York, 1989.
       Phillips, Ulrich B.  Life and Labor in the Old South.  Boston, 1929.
       Phillips, Ulrich B.  American Negro Slavery:  A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime.  Baton Rouge, LA, 1969.
       Stampp, Kenneth.  The Peculiar Institution:  Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.  NY, 1956.
       Wade, Richard C.  Slavery in the Cities:  The South 1820-1860.  New York, 1964. 


V.    Secondary Sources that Deal with Slavery in Specific States or Locales (Alphabetically by States)

       Sellers, James B.  Slavery in Alabama.  University, Ala., 1950.
       Smith, Julia Floyd.  Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860.  Gainesville, Fla.
       Smith, Julia Floyd, 1914.  Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
       Flanders, Ralph B.  Plantation Slavery in Georgia. 
       Wood, Betty.  Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775.  Athens, Ga., 1984.
       Taylor, Joel Gray.  Negro Slavery in Louisiana.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1963.
       Fields, Barbara Jeanne.  Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground:  Maryland During the Nineteenth Century .  New Haven, Conn., 1985.
       Sydnor, Charles S.  Slavery in Mississippi .  New York, 1933.
       Wood, Peter.  Black Majority:  Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion.  New York, 1974.
       Mooney, Charles C. Slavery in Tennessee . Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1957.
       Campbell, Randolph B. An Empire for Slavery:  The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865.  Baton Rouge, LA, 1989.