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The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter

16—HISTORY—Slavery

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16—HISTORY—Slavery

808

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro slave revolts. New York, International Publishers [1963] 409 p. E447.A67 1963

Issued also as thesis (Ph.D.), Columbia University.

Includes bibliography.

809

Aptheker, Herbert. Nat Turner's slave rebellion. Together with the full text of the so-called "confessions" of Nat Turner made in prison in 1831. New York, Published for A.I.M.S. by Humanities Press [1966] 152 p. facsim. F232.S7A8

Thesis (M.A.)—Columbia University.

Bibliography: p. 111-125.

810

Aptheker, Herbert. One continual cry; David Walker's Appeal to the colored citizens of the world, 1829-1830, its setting & its meaning, together with the full text of the third, and last, edition of the Appeal. New York, Published for A.I.M.S. by Humanities Press [1965] 150 p. E446.W2A6

Bibliography: p. 149-150.

811

Bancroft, Frederic. Slave-trading in the Old South. Baltimore, J. H. Furst Co., 1931. 415 p. facsims., plates, table. E442.B21

812

Barnes, Gilbert H. The antislavery impulse, 1830-1844. With a new introduction by William G. McLoughlin. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1964] xxxv, 298 p. E449.B264 1964

First published in 1933.

Includes bibliographical references.

813

Brackett, Jeffrey R. The Negro in Maryland; a study of the institution of slavery. Baltimore, N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1889. 268 p. (Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. Extra v. 6) H31.J62 v. 6 E445.M3B7

814

Bruce, Kathleen. Virginia iron manufacture in the slave era. New York, A. M. Kelley, 1968. 482 p. illus., facsim., map, port. (Library of early American business and industry, 22) HD9517.V52B7 1968

Reprints of economic classics.

Reprint of the 1930 ed.

Bibliography: p. 431-451.

815

Buckmaster, Henrietta, pseud. Let my people go; the story of the underground railroad and the growth of the abolition movement. New York, Harper [c1941] 398 p. map, plates, ports. E450.B89 1941

London edition (V. Gollancz) has title: Out of the House of Bondage.

Bibliography: p. 375-388.

816

Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad. New York, A. M. Kelley, 1968. 712 p. ports. (Reprints of economic classics) E450.C64 1968

Reprint of the 1876 ed.

817

Coleman, John Winston. Slavery times in Kentucky. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1940. xiv, 351 p. facsims., plates, ports. E445.K5C7 [TR: Coleman, J. Winston]

"Selected bibliography": p. 327-332.

818

Davis, David B. The problem of slavery in Western culture. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1966] xiv, 505 p. HT871.D3

Bibliographical footnotes.

819

Dillon, Merton L. Benjamin Lundy and the struggle for Negro freedom. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1966. 285 p. port. E446.D54

Bibliography: p. [263]-267.

820

Donnan, Elizabeth, ed. Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1930-35. 4 v. map, tables. (Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication no. 409) E441.D68 AS32.A5 no. 409

On verso of t.p.: Division of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Contents.—1. 1441-1700.—2. The eighteenth century.—3. New England and the middle colonies.—4. The border colonies and the southern colonies.

821

Donovan, Frank R. Mr. Lincoln's proclamation; the story of the Emancipation Proclamation. New York, Dodd, Mead [1964] 146 p. illus., ports. E457.2.D68

822

Douglas, William O. Mr. Lincoln & the Negroes; the long road to equality. New York, Atheneum, 1963. 237 p. E457.2.D7

Appendix (p. 117-232) contains texts of documents from 1776 to 1963.

823

Drewry, William S. The Southampton Insurrection. Murfreesboro, N.C., Johnson Pub. Co., 1968. 240 p. illus., maps, ports. (A Virginia heritage book) F232.S7D7 1968

Reprint of the 1900 ed., with biographical notes on the author and an index.

Bibliography: p. 198-201.

824

Duberman, Martin B., ed. The antislavery vanguard: new essays on the abolitionists. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1965. 508 p. E449.D84

Bibliographical footnotes.

825

DuBois, William E. B. The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. New York, Longmans, Green, 1896. 335 p. diagrs. (Harvard historical studies, v. 1) E441.D81

Appendixes.—A. A chronological conspectus of colonial and State legislation restricting the African slave-trade, 1641-1787.—B. A chronological conspectus of State, national, and international legislation, 1788-1871.—C. Typical cases of vessels engaged in the American slave-trade, 1619-1864.—D. Bibliography (p. [299]-325).

826

Dumond, Dwight L. Antislavery origins of the Civil War in the United States. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1939. 143 p. E449.D87

"Commonwealth Foundation lectures, University College, London, second term, 1938-39."

"List of additional readings": p. 131-134. "Selected bibliography of proslavery and antislavery publications": p. 135-139.

827

Dumond, Dwight L. Antislavery; the crusade for freedom in America. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1961] 422 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. E441.D84

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [373]-413).

828

Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery; a problem in American institutional and intellectual life. 2d ed. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1968] 263 p. E443.E4 1968

Bibliographical footnotes.

829

Federal Writers' Project. Lay my burden down; a folk history of slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1945] xxi, 285 p. plates. E444.F26

"A selection and integration of excerpts and complete narratives from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project."

830

Filler, Louis. The crusade against slavery, 1830-1860. New York, Harper [1960] 318 p. illus. (The New American nation series) E449.F49

Bibliography: p. 281-303.

831

Fisk University, Nashville. Social Science Institute. Unwritten history of slavery, autobiographical account of Negro ex-slaves. Nashville, 1945. 322 (i.e. 323) leaves. (Its Social science source documents, no. 1) E444.F5

"The interviews with these ex-slaves were conducted during 1929 and 1930 by Mrs. Ophelia Settle Egypt."—Introductory note.

832

Fitzhugh, George. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. 264 p. (The John Harvard library) E449.F555 1960

833

Foner, Philip S. Business & slavery: the New York merchants & the irrepressible conflict. New York, Russell & Russell [1968] 356 p. F128.44.F67 1968

Reprint of the 1941 ed.

Bibliography: p. 323-336.

834

Gara, Larry. The liberty line; the legend of the underground railroad. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press [1961] 201 p. E450.G22

Bibliographical footnotes.

835

Genovese, Eugene D. The political economy of slavery; studies in the economy & society of the slave South. New York, Pantheon Books [1965] xiv, 304 p. E442.G45

Includes bibliographies.

836

Halasz, Nicholas. The rattling chains; slave unrest and revolt in the antebellum South. New York, D. McKay Co. [1966] 274 p. E447.H3

Bibliography: p. 257-266.

837

Helper, Hinton R. The impending crisis of the South; how to meet it. Edited by George M. Fredrickson. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968. lxiii, 429 p. (The John Harvard library) E449.H483 1968

Reprint of the 1857 ed. with a new introduction by the editor.

Bibliographical footnotes.

838

Hollander, Barnett. Slavery in America. New York, Barnes & Noble [1963] 212 p. DLC-LL [TR: London, Bowes & Bowes [c1962] KF4545.S5H59]

839

Jenkins, William S. Pro-slavery thought in the Old South. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1960 [c1935] 381 p. E441.J46 1960

Bibliography: p. 309-358.

839a

Jernegan, Marcus W. Laboring and dependent classes in colonial America, 1607-1783; studies of the economic, educational, and social significance of slaves, servants, apprentices, and poor folk. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [c1931] 256 p. (Social service monographs, no. 17) E188.J57

"Bibliographical note": p. 211-212. "Notes": p. 213-248.

840

Johnson, Frank R. The Nat Turner slave insurrection. Murfreesboro, N.C., Johnson Pub. Co. [1966] 248 p. illus., maps. F232.S7J6 [TR: Johnson, F. Roy]

"The confessions of Nat Turner": p. 225-248.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 187-210).

841

Kemble, Frances A. Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839. Edited, with an introduction, by John A. Scott. New York, Knopf, 1961. lxx, 415 p. facsim., maps, port. F290.K332 1961 [TR: Kemble, Fanny]

"Bibliographical notes": p. 406-415. Bibliographical footnotes.

842

Korn, Bertram W. Jews and Negro slavery in the Old South, 1789-1865. Elkins Park, Pa., Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, 1961. 68 p. illus. E441.K65

"Delivered as the presidential address at the fifty-ninth annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society, February 18, 1961, and reprinted from the March, 1961, issue of its quarterly Publication."

Bibliographical footnotes.

843

Lader, Lawrence. The bold Brahmins; New England's war against slavery, 1831-1863. New York, Dutton, 1961. 318 p. illus. E449.L12

Bibliography: p. 293-312.

844

Latham, Frank B. The Dred Scott decision, March 6, 1857; slavery and the Supreme Court's self-inflicted wound. New York, F. Watts [1968] 54 p. illus., facsims., ports. (A Focus book) KF4545.S5L3

Bibliography, p. 52.

845

Lester, Julius, comp. To be a slave. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. New York, Dial Press [1968] 160 p. illus. E444.L47

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

Bibliography: p. 159-160.

846

Lloyd, Arthur Y. The slavery controversy, 1831-1860. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1939. 337 p. E449.L76

"Selected bibliography": p. [287]-322.

847

Lofton, John. Insurrection in South Carolina: the turbulent world of Denmark Vesey. Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch Press [1964] 294 p. maps. F279.C4L6

Bibliography: p. [274]-286.

848

Loguen, Jermain W. The Rev. J. W. Loguen as a slave and as a freeman. A narrative of real life. Syracuse, N.Y., J. G. K. Truair, Printers, 1859. 454 p. port. E444.L83

Written in the third person, but apparently the work of Loguen.

"Testimony of Rev. E. P. Rogers," including a poem "Loguen's Position": p. 445-450.

849

McKitrick, Eric L., ed. Slavery defended: the views of the Old South. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1963] 180 p. (A Spectrum book) E449.M16

"Suggestions for further reading, and acknowledgments": p. 179-180.

850

McManus, Edgar J. A history of Negro slavery in New York. Foreword by Richard B. Morris. [Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press [1966] 219 p. E445.N56M3

"Bibliographical note": p. 201-212.

851

May, Samuel J. Some recollections of our antislavery conflict. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 408 p. (The American Negro, his history and literature) E449.M461 1968

Reprint of the 1869 ed., with a new introduction.

852

Moore, George H. Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts. New York, Negro Universities Press [1968] 256 p. E445.M4M8 1968

Reprint of the 1866 ed.

Bibliographical footnotes.

853

Olmsted, Frederick L. Journey through Texas; a saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier. Edited by James Howard. Austin, Tex., Von Boeckmann-Jones Press [distributed by University Cooperative Bookstore] 1962. 299 p. illus. F391.O512 1962

Bibliography: p. 291-295.

854

Owens, William A. Slave mutiny; the revolt on the schooner Amistad. New York, J. Day Co. [1953] 312 p. illus. E447.O9

855

Phillips, Ulrich B. American Negro slavery; a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation regime. New York, Appleton, 1918. 529 p. E441.P549

Bibliographical footnotes.

856

Phillips, Ulrich B. Life and labor in the Old South. Boston, Little, Brown [1963] 375 p. illus. F209.P563

Bibliographical footnotes.

857

Pickard, Kate E. R. The kidnapped and the ransomed. [New York] Negro Publication Society of America, 1941. 315 p. ([Negro Publication Society of America. Publications] Series 1, History, no. 1) E444.S855

"The first edition ... appeared in 1856."—Editor's note.

"Appendix. Seth Conklin [by W. H. Furness]": p. 293-315.

858

Postell, William D. The health of slaves on southern plantations. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1951] 231 p. illus. (Louisiana State University studies. Social science series, no. 1) E443.P78

Bibliography: p. 214-226.

859

Rozwenc, Edwin C., ed. Slavery as a cause of the Civil War. Rev. ed. Boston, Heath [1963] 120 p. (Problems in American civilization; readings selected by the Dept. of American Studies, Amherst College) E459.R6 1963

"Suggestions for additional reading": p. 103-104.

860

Ruchames, Louis, ed. The abolitionists; a collection of their writings. New York, Putnam [1963] 259 p. E449.R88

861

Sanborn, Franklin B. Recollections of seventy years. Boston, R. G. Badger, 1909. Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1967. 2 v. (607 p.) illus., facsims., ports. (The Gale library of lives and letters: American writers series) E449.S21 1967

Contents.—v. 1. Political life.—v. 2. Literary life.

862

Scarborough, Ruth. The opposition to slavery in Georgia prior to 1860. New York, Negro Universities Press [1968, c1933] 257 p. E445.G3S25 1968

Bibliography: p. 252-257.

863

Sellers, James B. Slavery in Alabama. University, University of Alabama Press, 1950. 426 p. illus., ports. E445.A3S4

Bibliography: p. [399]-409.

864

Sherrard, Owen A. Freedom from fear; the slave and his emancipation. New York, St. Martin's Press [1961, c1959] 200 p. HT1162.S45 1961

Bibliography: p. [191]-193.

865

Shugg, Roger W. Origins of class struggle in Louisiana; a social history of white farmers and laborers during slavery and after, 1840-1875. [Baton Rouge] Louisiana State University Press [1968] xiv, 372 p. (Louisiana paperbacks, L-36) F374.S58 1968

Bibliography: p. 332-363.

866

Siebert, Wilbur H. The underground railroad from slavery to freedom. With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. New York, Russell & Russell [1967] xxv, 478 p. illus., facsim., maps (part fold.), ports. E450.S57 1967

Reprint of the 1898 ed.

Bibliography: p. 380-402.

867

Spears, John R. The American slave trade; an account of its origin, growth, and suppression. Abridged ed. New York, Ballantine Books [1960] 158 p. illus. (Ballantine books, 392K) E441.S736

868

Stampp, Kenneth M. The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South. New York, Knopf, 1956. 435 p. E441.S8

"Manuscripts consulted, and their locations": p. 431-[436]. Bibliographical footnotes.

869

Starkey, Marion L. Striving to make it my home; the story of Americans from Africa. New York, Norton [1964] 256 p. E441.S82

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 251-256).

870

Starling, Marion W. The slave narrative; its place in American literary history. New York, New York University, 1949. 19 p. E444.S8

Abridgement of thesis—New York University.

Bibliographical footnotes.

871

Stephenson, Clarence D. The impact of the slavery issue on Indiana County. Marion Center, Pa., Mahoning Mimeograph & Pamphlet Service [1964] 155 p. illus., facsims., ports. (Indiana County historical series, no. 2) F157.I3S78

Bibliography: p. 151-155.

872

Still, William. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers, of the road. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1872. 780 p. illus., plates, ports. E450.S85

Reprint issued by Arno Press, 1968.

873

Strother, Horatio T. The underground railroad in Connecticut. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1962] 262 p. illus. E450.S93

874

The Suppressed book about slavery. New York, Arno Press, 1968. 432 p. illus. (The American Negro; his history and literature) E449.S9592 1968

Reprint of the 1864 ed.

875

Sydnor, Charles S. Slavery in Mississippi. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1965 [c1933] 270 p. map. E445.M6S92 1965

At head of title: The American Historical Association.

Bibliography: p. 255-262.

876

Taylor, Joe G. Negro slavery in Louisiana. [Baton Rouge] Louisiana Historical Association [1963] 260 p. E445.L8T3

Bibliography: p. 239-252.

877

Trefousse, Hans L. The radical Republicans; Lincoln's vanguard for racial justice. New York, Knopf, 1969 [c1968] xiv, 492, xvii p. illus., ports. E449.T79

Bibliography: p. 471-492.

877a

Turner, Edward R. The Negro in Pennsylvania, slavery—servitude—freedom, 1639-1861. Washington, American Historical Association, 1911. 314 p. (Prize essays of the American Historical Association, 1910) E185.93.P41T9

To this essay was awarded the Justin Winsor Prize in American History for 1910.

Bibliography: p. 255-294.

878

Turner, Nat. The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, in the prison where he was confined. Richmond, T. R. Gray, 1832. 24 p. F232.S7T9

879

Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the cities; the South, 1820-1860. New York, Oxford University Press, 1964. 340 p. E443.W3

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [287]-323).

880

Walker, David. David Walker's appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America. Edited and with an introduction by Charles M. Wiltse. New York, Hill and Wang [1965] 78 p. (American century series, AC73) E446.W178

Reprint of the 1929 ed.

Bibliographical footnotes.

881

Wish, Harvey, ed. Slavery in the South; first-hand accounts of the ante-bellum American Southland from northern & southern whites, Negroes, & foreign observers. New York, Farrar, Straus [1964] xxi, 290 p. facsim. (Materials of American history series) E441.W78

Bibliography: p. [xxiii].

882

Zilversmit, Arthur. First emancipation; the abolition of slavery in the North. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1967] 262 p. E446.Z5

"Bibliography essay": p. [245]-250.

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