Slavery, Slaves, and Slaveholders

The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. By John W. Blassingame.

Black Southerners, 1619-1869. By John B. Boles.

An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865.  By Randolph B. Campbell.

Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge.  By Charles B. Dew.

Gabriel’s Rebellion:  The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802.  By Douglas R. Egerton.

Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. By Stanley M. Elkins.

Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. By Paul Finkelman.

From Rebellion to Revolution:  Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World.  By Eugene D. Genovese.

The Slaveholders’ Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860. By Eugene D. Genovese.

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Eugene D. Genovese.

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. By Herbert G. Gutman.

To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Revolt. By Peter Hinks.

Soul by Soul: Life Inside The Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson.

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. By Jacqueline Jones.

Stolen Childhood: Slavery Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wilma King.

American Slavery: 1619-1877. By Peter Kolchin.

Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter. By John Lofton.

Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey.  By John Lofton.

Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana. By Ann Patton Malone.

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. By Philip D. Morgan.

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. By Thomas D. Morris.

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion. By Stephen B. Oates.

Trabelin’ On: The Slave Journey to an Afro Baptist Faith. By Mechal Sobel.

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. By Kenneth M. Stampp.

Ar’n’t I a Woman?  Female Slaves in the Plantation South.  By Deborah Gray White.

The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood.

Women’s Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia. By Betty Wood.


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