14. African Americans in United States History (1600s-1877)
Abrahams, Roger D. and John F. Szwed, eds.. After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. CYP, RGC: F 2131 .A47
Adams, Nehemiah. A South-side View of Slavery: or, Three Months at the South in 1854. 3rd ed. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1969. NRG, RGC: E 449 .A216
Adler, Mortimer, ed. The Negro in American History. 3 vols. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1972. EVC, RGC, RVS: E 185 .N4 1972
Albert, Octavia V. Rogers. The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves. (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. RVS E 444 .A33 A3 1988
Andrews, William L., ed. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. (Religion in North America.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. (The three are Jarena Lee [b.1783], Zilllpha Elaw [b. ca. 1790], and Lulia A. J. Foote [1823-1900].) NRG, RVS: BV 3780 .S57 1986
Appiah, Anthony, ed. Early African-American Classics. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. (Content: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; selections from Up from Slavery; selections from The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.) RVS E 185 .E135 1990
Baker, T. Lindsey, and Julie P. Baker, eds. Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. (Oral histories of persons residing in Oklahoma at the time of the interviews but who had been slaves in Texas before their emancipation. The interviews were conducted as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the 1930s.) NRG, RVS: E 444 .T55 1997
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. The Destruction of Slavery. (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. NRG, RGC, RVS E 185.2 .F88 SER. 1 V. 1
Berlin, Ira. Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era. New York: New Press, 1997. RGC: E 185.2 .F27 1997
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War. New York: The New Press, 1992. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 185.2 .F8 1992
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York: The New Press, 1998. (Transcriptions of interviews made in the 1930s with surviving ex-slaves. (Part of a project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration.) Material arranged topically: “The Faces of Power: Slaves and Owners;” “Work and Slave Life;” Family Life and Slavery;” “Slave Culture;” and “Slaves No More.” An appendix contains the text of the radio documentary, “Remembering Slavery.”) RVS: E 443 .R46 1998
Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. RGC, RVS: E 444 .S57
Blockson, Charles L., ed. The Underground Railroad. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987. (First-hand accounts of escapes by slaves to/through the North.) CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 450 .B66 1987
Bontemps, Arna, comp. Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. (Contents: The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself; The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.) NRG, RGC: E 444 .B67 1969
Botkin, B. A., ed. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. (A selection and integration of excepts and complete narratives from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers’ Project.) PIN, RVS: E 444 .F26 1945
Brown, Thrasher, ed. “Dear Master”: Letters of a Slave Family. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. RVS: E 444 .D42 1990
Brown, William Wells. The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. And a Lecture Delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, 1847. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1969. RGC E 444 .B88
Clayton, Ronnie W. Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers’ Project. (University of Kansas Humanistic Studies, No. 57.) New York: Peter Lang, 1990. RVS: E 445 .L8 C57 1990
Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad . . . . New York: AMS Press, 1971. NRG: E 450 .C65
Collected Black Women’s Narratives. (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (Narratives by Nancy Prince, H. Mattison, Bethany Veney, and Susie King Taylor.) RVS: E 185.96 .C64 1988
Conneau, Theophile. A Slaver’s Log Book: or 20 Years’ Residence in Africa. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976. RVS: HT 1322 .C59
Davis, Clarence T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. The Slave’s Narrative. Oxford, Engl.: Oxford University Press, 1985. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC: E 444 .S575 1985
Davis, Edwin Adams. The Barber of Natchez; Wherein a Slave is Freed and Rises to a Very High Standing. . . . Edited by William Ransom Hogan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. NRG E 185.97 .J697 D3 1973
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. (Compilation of writings and speeches. Douglass was a strong supporter of women’s rights in the nineteenth century, and most especially of the rights of African-American women.) RVS: HQ 1426 .D82 1976
Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Edited by William L. Andrews. (Blacks in the New World.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. (Written in 1855.) CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 449 .D738 1987
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Edited by Harold Bloom. (Modern Critical Interpretations.) New York: Chelsea House, 1988. RVS: E 449 .D7493 F74 1988. (RGC has a copy of a different edition. The call number is E 449.D74905 1960. PIN and RVS have copies of a different edition. The call number is E 449 .D749 1982.)
Douglass, Frederick. The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader. Edited by William L. Andrews. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Includes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in its entirety, along with the oration, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ?” Also has selections from other writings. From the cover: Provides “the most complete, diverse, and personally revealing record available of nineteenth-century black America’s most celebrated writer.”) RVS: E 449 .D749 1996
Falconbridge, Alexander. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. New York: AMS Press, 1973. RVS: HT 1321 .F3 1973
Filler, Louis. The Rise and Fall of Slavery in America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: J. S. Ozer, 1980. (Part I is a series of secondary source essays. Part II is a series of primary source documents.) NRG, RGC, RVS: E 441 .F54 1980
Foner, Philip S., and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. The Black Worker: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol. 1: The Black Worker to 1869. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press, 1978. RGC, RVS: E 185.8 .B553, V. 1.
Foner, Philip S., and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. Black Workers: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press, 1989. (Abridged version of the 8-vol.The Black Worker: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present. The first twenty-nine documents deal with the time period of this course. For a larger compilation of documents on this subject see entry just previous to this one.) EVC: HD 8081 .A65 1989
Forten, Charlotte L. The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke. Edited by Brenda Stevenson. (Schomburg Collection of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (Author (1837-1914), born into an affluent and politically active black family in Philadelphia, was an African-American scholar, reformer, teacher and writer. Taught refugee slaves at Port Royal, S.C., during Civil War. Journals cover 1854-1864 and 1885-1892.) RGC: LA 2317 .F67 A3 1989
[Gale Research.] DISCovering Multicultural America. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1997. (Database on the World-Wide Web. 350 primary source documents covering all of the scope of United States history. Includes documents about African Americans in the period covered by this course. Select “Significant Documents,” then de-select all groups except African Americans. Then click on “Search.” Some of the documents are excerpts. At present, can only be accessed from a computer in an ACC facility. Students can do this from any Learning Resource Center or computer lab.) All ACC LRCs: . For assistance, see a reference librarian or other LRC personnel.
Gates, Henry, ed. Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Penguin, 1987. (Contents: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an African Slave; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.) NRG: E 444 .C63 1987
Gilbert, Olive. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Edited by Margaret Washington. New York: Vintage, 1993. (A dictated autobiography written by Olive Gilbert.) EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 185.97 .T8 G55 1993. (Another edition is at RGC and RVS.)
Grant, Joanne, ed. Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses, 1619 to the Present. 2nd ed. N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1983. NRG, RVS: E 185 .B585 1983
Gunther, Lenworth, ed. Black Image: European Eyewitness Accounts of Afro-American Life. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1978. (Relevant documents in the first three sections.) CYP, NRG: E 185 .B58
Halliburton, Warren J., comp. Historic Speeches of African Americans. (The African-American Experience.) New York: Franklin Watts, 1993. (First eight speeches are relevant to History 1613. Subjects include Slavery, efforts to recolonize American slaves to Africa, likely effects of emancipation, women’s rights [Sojourner Truth], and Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation.) NRG, RGC: E 184.6 .H57 1993
Hine, William C., comp. Slavery in the United States. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. (Portfolio containing replicas of contemporary documents and other materials.) RGC: E 441 .S634
Holley, Sallie. A Life for Liberty: Anti-Slavery and Other Letters of Sallie Holley. Edited by John White Chadwick. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. RGC: E 449 .H73 1969
Jackson, Rebecca. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Edited by Jean Humez. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. RGC: BX 9771 .J3 1981
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. CYP, EVC, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 444 .J17 A3 1988 (Other editions of this title are at NRG and RGC. See catalog for details.)
Johnson, Isaac. Slavery Days in Old Kentucky. Edited by Cornel Breinhart. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994. EVC: E 444 .J64 1994.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years and Slave and Four Years in the White House. (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. RVS: E 457.15 .K26 1988
Larison, Cornelius Wilson. Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand her Fredom.. (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. RVS: E 444 .D83 L37 1988
Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage Books, 1973. CYP, EVC, PIN, RVS: E 185.86 .L4 1973
Lester, Julius, comp. To Be a Slave. New York: Dial Press, 1968. (A compilation of reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.) NRG: E 444 .L47
Love, Nat. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick.” (Blacks in the American West.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. (The first fifteen chapters are relevant to this course. Author was a former slave from Tennessee. Only black cowboy to write of his experiences driving cattle up the Chisholm Trail out of Texas. Also recounts adventures in Arizona and Dakota territories, etc.) NRG: F 594 .L89 1995
Malvin, John. North into Freedom: The Autobiography of John Malvin, Free Negro, 1795-1880. Edited by Allan Peskin. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988. RGC: E 185.97 .M26 A3 1988
Mellon, James, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. PIN: E 444 .B95 1990
Meltzer, Milton, ed. In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro. 3 vols. New York: Crowell, 1964-67. Vol. 1: NRG E 185 .M54 V.1. Vol. 2: RVS E 185 .M54 V.2. Vol. 3: NRG: E 185 .M54 V.3
Meyer, Brantz. Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea, as Told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., 1928. RGC, RVS: HT 1322 .M3 1928
Miller, Randall M., ed. Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family. Brown Thrasher edition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. (“Fullest known record left by an American slave family.” More than 200 letters written by two generations of the Skipworth family. First series written by freed emigrés in Liberia; second by family members who were slaves on an Alabama plantation. Years covered: 1834-1865.) RVS: E 444 .D42 1990
Mintz, Steven, ed. African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993. (Contents: Eight parts: Enslavement, The Middle Passage, Arrival, Conditions of Life, Childhood, Family, Religion, Punishment, Resistance, Flight, and Emancipation.) NRG: E 443 .A37 1993
Mullin, Michael, ed. American Negro Slavery: A Documentary History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976. NRG: E 441 .A577 1976
Nalty, Bernard C., and Morris J. MacGregor, eds. Blacks in the Military: Essential Documents. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1981. (Materials relevant to History 1613 are on pp. 3-49. Earliest dated 1639, latest, 1877.) NRG: WB 418K .A47 B55 1981
Northrup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. (Library of Southern Civilization.) Edited by Sue L. Eakin and Joseph Logsdon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. (Reprint of the 1853 ed.) NRG, RGC: E 444 .N87 1968
Perdue, Charles L., Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips, eds. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. Charlotte: University Press of Virginia, 1992.(Interviews conducted in the 1930s by an all-black unit of the Virginia Writers’ Project. All 159 surviving interviews are included.) RGC: E 444 .W37 1992
Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Vols. 1, 4, and 5. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972. (Vol. 1 is an extended essay, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community. The other volumes are transcriptions of narratives prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-38. Vols. 4 and 5 are Texas narratives. The complete set [42 volumes, including supplements to the original set] is in UT’s PCL Stacks, call number E 3441 A58.) NRG E 441 .A58 Vols. 1, 4, and 5. RGC: E 441 .A58 Vols. 4 and 5
[Research Publications.] The African-American Experience. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1996. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searchable collection of primary sources related to African Americans in American history.) RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.) Also in the RVS Computer Center.
Ripley, C. Peter., ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [var. pub. dates.] RGC: E 449 .B624 1985 [plus the vol. no.] Vol. 1 The British Isles, 1830-1865, 1985. Vol. 2 Canada, 1830-1865, 1986. Vol. 3 The United States, 1830-1846, 1991. Vol. 4 The United States, 1847-1858, 1991. Vol. 5 The United States, 1859-1865, 1992.
Romero, Patricia W., ed. I Too Am America: Documents from 1619 to the Present. (International Library of Afro-American Life and History.) Cornwells Heights, Pa.: Publishers Agency, 1976. RVS: E 185 .I58 1976. (Another edition is at RVS. The call number is E 185 .R76 1970.)
Sernett, Milton C., ed. Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985. RVS: BR 563 .N4 A37
Six Women’s Slave Narratives. (Schomburg LIbrary of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (Narratives by Mary Prince, “Old Elizabeth,” L. S. Thompson [about Mattie J. Jackson], Lucy A. Delany, Kate, Drumgoold, and Annie L. Burton.) RVS: E444 .S59 1989
Starobin, Robert S., ed. Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves. M. Weiner, 1988. RVS: E 444 .B62 1988. NRG E 444 .S82 1974 (Another copy, with different publication data and call number, is at NRG: E 444 .S82 1974.)
Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. RGC: E 185.86 .W43 1984
Teamoh, Goerge. God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh. Edited by F. N. Boney, and others. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1990. CYP: E 185.93 V8 T438 1990
The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey. Introduction by John Oliver Killens. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1970. (Reprint of the 1822 edition. Records trial of a former slave who plotted a slave insurrection and attack on Charleston, South Carolina, in 1822.) RVS: KF 223 .V4 K4 1970
Turner, Nat. The Confession, Trial, and Execution of Nat Turner, the Negro Insurrectionist . . . . New York: AMS Press, 1975. NRG: F 232 .S7 T9 1975
Tyler, Ronnie, and Lawrence R. Murphy, eds. The Slave Narratives of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Encino Press, 1974. NRG, RGC: E 445 .T47 S52. (A reprint is also available at RGC and RVS. Austin, Tex.: The State House Press, 1997. Same call number except that 1997 is added at the end.)
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. (The first five chapters relate to History 1613.) RVS: E 185.97 .W3164 Another edition, with different publication data, is at RGC: E 185.97 W3163 1963. Another book, (with different publication data) contains this work and two others, is at RVS: E 185.97 W278 1965a. Another version is at NRG: E 185.97 .W3164 1959
White, George, and John Jea. Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White. Edited by Graham Russell Hodges. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1993. (Author was born in 1764. “Brief account of the life, experience, travels and Gospel labours of George White, an African” and “The life, history, and unparalleled sufferings of John Jea, the African preacher” were evidently written by Jea, who was born in 1773. Both men were African-American preachers.) RGC: BR 563 .N4 W49 1993
Wish, Harvey, ed. Slavery in the South: A Collection of Contemporary Accounts of the System of Plantation Slavery in the Southern United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (Materials of American History Series.) New York: Noonday Press, 1964. CYP: E 441 .W78 1964
Yetman, Norman R., ed. Voices from Slavery. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. (Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers’ Project.) NRG, RGC: E 444 .Y42
(See also: Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Sectionalism, 1829-1861; The Civil War; Reconstruction; Women in United States History, 1492-1877.)