African American History Resources

@ Pequot Library

Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.

Biography arranged by subject’s last name.

Slavery [arranged from most recent to earliest]:

The Wanderer:  the Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy that Set Its Sails.   Calonius, Erik, 2006.     973.7 CALONIUS

Slavery and the Making of America.   Horton, James Oliver, 2005.     973.04 HORTON

New York Burning:  Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan.     Lepore, Jill,  2005.     974.7102  LEPORE

The Sounds of Slavery:  Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech.  White, Shane, 2005.     973.0496 WHITE

Uncivil Wars:  the Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery.   Horowitz, David, 2002.     

323.1 HOROWITZ

The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie:  an African-American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past.   Cottman, Michael H., 1999.     975.941 COTTMAN

Soul by Soul:  Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.   Johnson, Walter, 1999.   976.3 JOHNSON

Slaves in the Family.  Ball, Edward, 1998.     975.7915 BALL

Half Slave and Half Free:  the Roots of the Civil War.  Levine, Bruce C., 1992.     973.711 LEVINE

Celia, a Slave.  McLaurin, Melton Alonza, 1991.  345.73 MCLAUREN

Without Consent or Contract:  the Rise and Fall of American Slavery.  Fogel, Robert William, 1989. 

306.362 FOGEL

The Economy of Early America:  the Revolutionary Period, 1763-1790.  1988. 330.973 ECONOMY

Unfree Labor:  American Slavery and Russian Serfdom.  Kolchin, Peter, 1987.   306.362 KOLCHIN

Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground:  Maryland During the Nineteenth Century.   Fields, Barbara J., 1985.     975.2 FIELDS

Slavery in the Courtroom:  an Annotated Bibliography.  Finkelman, Paul, 1985.

016.34 FINKELMAN

Black Masters:  a Free Family of Color in the Old South.   Johnson, Michael P., 1984.    975.7 JO

Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution.  1983.305.8 BERLIN

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.  Jacobs, Harriet Ann, 1983.     326 BRENT

The Notorious Triangle:  Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade 1700-1807.  Coughty, Jay, 1981.        974.5 CO

Black Odyssey:  the Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery.   Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 1977.

301.44 HUGGINS

American Negro Slavery:  a Documentary History.  Mullin, Michael, ed., 1976.301.44 AMERICAN

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925.  Gutman, Herbert George, 1976.    301.42 GUTMAN

Reckoning with Slavery:  a Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery.

1976.     326 DAVID

Holy Warriors:  the Abolitionists and American Slavery.  Stewart, James B., 1976. 322.4 STEWART

Time on the Cross:  the Economics of American Negro Slavery.  Fogel, Robert William, 1974. 

331.1 FOGEL

American Slave Trade; or, an Account of the Manner in Which the Slave Dealers Take Free People from Some of the United States of America, and Carry Them Away, and Sell Them as Slaves in Other of the States; and of the Horrible Cruelties Practised in the Carrying on of this Most Infamous Traffic; with Reflections on the Project for Forming a Colony of American Blacks in Africa, and Certain Documents Respecting that Project.   Torrey, James, 1971.    325 TORREY

Slavery.  Elkins, Stanley M., 1959.     326 ELKINS

American Negro Slavery:  a Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime.  Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, 19959.   326 PHILLIPS

Up from Slavery:  an Autobiography.  Washington, Booker T., 1993.    370.92 WASHINGTON