Bibliography of slavery in the United States

This bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to books documenting the history of slavery in the U.S., from its colonial origins in the 17th century through the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which officially abolished the practice in 1865. In addition, links are provided to related bibliographies and articles elsewhere in Wikipedia.

Histories

Inspection of an African man being sold into slavery.[1]
  • Baptist, Edward E.; Camp, Stephanie M.H., eds. (2006). New Studies in the History of American Slavery. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2563-7.
  • Bennett, Lerone Jr. (1966) [1962]. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1966. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Berlin, Ira (1998). Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-81092-9. Bancroft Prize for American History, 1999[2]
  • (2003). Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01061-2.
  • Brooks, James F. (2011) [2002]. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture). ISBN 978-0807827147. Bancroft Prize for American History, 2003[3]
  • Brown, Richard D. (1976). Slavery in American Society. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company. ISBN 0669000736.
  • Christian, Charles M.; Bennet, Sari (1998). Black Saga: The African American Experience, A Chronology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-68717-9.
  • David, Paul A. (1976). Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-502034-0.
  • Davis, David Brion (2006). Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514073-6.
  • Drescher, Seymour (2009). Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139482967.
  • Fischer, David Hackett (2022). African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781982145118.
  • Fogel, Robert (1989). Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-01887-3.
  • Foner, Eric, ed. (2017) [2005]. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Volume 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-60339-2.
  • Genovese, Eugene D. (1974). Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-49131-9. Bancroft Prize for American History, 1975[4]

The North

The South

Colonial Era: 16th century—1776

Revolutionary Era: 1776—early 19th century

Civil War Era: 1850s—1870s

Biographies

David W. Blight's 2018 biography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass won the Pulitzer Prize for History.[20]

Essay collections

The following collections explore either related topics or a range of issues tied to slavery. Many of the essays are by leading scholars on the subject.

Encyclopedias

Topics

Abolition/anti-slavery

Proslavery arguments held that blacks were incapable of caring for themselves.[26]

Agriculture/plantations

Constitution/law

Economics/capitalism

Emancipation/freedom

Government/politics

Material culture

  • Katz-Hyman, Martha B.; Rice, Kym S., eds. (2010). World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-34942-3.
  • McGill, Joseph Jr.; Frazier, Herb (2023). Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN 9780306829666.
  • Vlach, John Michael (1991). By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0-8139-1366-7.

Native Americans

Proslavery

Race/racism

Slave trade

Engraving of a slave auction in the Southern United States.

Religion

Rebellions/resistance

Underground railroad

Women

Woman whipping slave girl.[44]

Primary sources

Abolition/anti-slavery

Biographies/narratives

Proslavery

For younger readers

Notes

  1. "Inspection and Sale of a Negro". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  2. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1999)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
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  4. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1975)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  5. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1988)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  6. "2021 Winners & Finalists: Nonfiction". bookcritics.org. The National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  7. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2011)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  8. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1987)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  9. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1968)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  10. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2005)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  11. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1967)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  12. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (2004)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  13. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1999)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  14. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (2014)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  15. "Winner, National Book Awards 1976 for History And Biography". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  16. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2002)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  17. "Winner, National Book Awards 1981 for History - Paperback". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  18. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (1980)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  19. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (1977)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  20. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  21. "Winner, National Book Awards 1998 for Nonfiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  22. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2019)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  23. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (1982)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  24. "Winner, National Book Awards 2008 for Nonfiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  25. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1994)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  26. Fitzhugh, George (1854). Sociology for the South: Or, the Failure of Free Society. Richmond, VA: A. Morris, Publishers. pp. 27–29.
  27. "General Nonfiction Winner, 2014". bookcritics.org. The National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  28. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2015)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  29. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2006)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  30. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (1979)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  31. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2011)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  32. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (2011)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  33. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2020)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  34. "The Pulitzer Prizes: History (2023)". pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  35. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2003)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  36. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2017)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  37. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1972)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  38. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1969)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  39. "Winner, National Book Awards 1969 for History And Biography". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  40. "WWinner, National Book Awards 2016 for Nonfiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  41. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (2015)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  42. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1994)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  43. "General Nonfiction Winner, 2006". bookcritics.org. The National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  44. "Ladies Whipping Girls". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  45. "The Bancroft Prizes: Past Winners (1985)". columbia.edu. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  46. "Winner, National Book Awards 2021 for Nonfiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
  47. Shane, Scott (September 11, 2023). "How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
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