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Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery
is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following
information has been prepared to assist those interested in this topic.
Publications
Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries
of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1998.
_____. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in
the Antebellum South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
_____, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, eds. Remembering
Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences
of Slavery and Freedom. Includes audiocassettes of the radio series
produced by Jacquie Gales Webb. New York: New Press, 1998.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. Mark Twain's The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960.
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World
the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Black Rebellion: Five
Slave Revolts. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
Hill, Walter B., Jr. "Living with the Hydra-Headed
Monster: The Documentation of Slavery in Federal Records," in
Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, D.C. (forthcoming, Winter 2000).
Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. In Hope
of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks,
1700-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Johnson, Charles Richard, Patricia Smith, and WGBH series
research team. Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Videocassettes: www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia
Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum
Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Joyner, Charles W. Down by the Riverside: A South
Carolina Slave Community. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois
Press, 1984.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New
York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath
of Slavery. New York: Knopf, 1979.
Lowance, Mason, ed. Against Slavery: An Abolitionist
Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison
and the Abolition Of Slavery. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Mellon, James, ed. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible
Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1978.
Redford, Dorothy Spruill. Somerset Homecoming. Recovering
a Lost Heritage. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2000.
Robertson, David. Denmark Vesey: The Buried History
of America's Largest Slave Revolt. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Taylor, Yuval. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of
Classic Slave Narratives. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.
Tobin, Jacqueline, and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden
in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.
New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture
of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1993.
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.
Websites
African American Civil War Memorial
www.afroamcivilwar.org
Information about the sculpture Spirit of Freedom
and the Wall of Honor, which lists the names of over 200,000
Americans who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil
War.
African American Odyssey
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml
A virtual exhibition on the history of African Americans,
drawing on the resources of the Library of Congress. Includes an
extensive section on American slavery.
Colonial Williamsburg
www.history.org/scripts/query.asp
Information about the African American community in
Colonial Williamsburg; includes biographical sketches of slaves.
Background information for potential visitors.
Monticello
www.monticello.org/gettingword
Getting Word is a virtual exhibition that traces
the family histories of Monticello slaves and descendants. The website
also explores - through scholarship, oral tradition, and genetic
evidence - Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings.
Remembering Slavery
http://rememberingslavery.si.edu/
Information about the Smithsonian radio series of
readings and recordings of interviews with former slaves. Includes
excerpts from the series and accompanying book, plus photographs.
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the
American Civil War
jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2
This University of Virginia project is a hypermedia
archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and
after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County,
Pennsylvania.
Films
Orlando Bagwell
Africans in America: America's journey through
Slavery
Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History
Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground
Railroad
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Wonders of the African World
Haile Gerima
Sankofa
Mypheduh Films; 1-800-524-3895
www.sankofa.com
Ali Mazrui
Africa
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