Dr. Babbage's Slavery Bibliography

Sorted by Call Number / Author

277.3 RAB

Raboteau, Albert J. African American-religion. New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.
Examines the history of religious practice by African Americans and the development of religious institutions, regional movements, and important personalities from the time of slavery up to the twentieth century.

301.45 DuB

Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Writings. New York, N.Y : Literary Classics of the United States, c1986.
The suppression of the African slave-trade -- The souls of Black folk -- Dusk of dawn -- Essays and articles.

305.8 DOU

Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895. Frederick Douglass, in his own words. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1995.
A selection of Frederick Douglass's speeches and writings on the topics of slavery, injustice, inequality, and racism.

305.896 Wal

Walter, Mildred Pitts. Mississippi challenge. 1st ed. New York : Bradbury Press, c1992.
Describes the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in Mississippi, from the time of slavery to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

306.3 AME

American slavery. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
A collection of essays that examine the influence slavery had on American history, politics, literature, and culture.

306.3 HAT

Hatt, Christine. The African-American slave trade. North Mankato, Minn. : Smart Apple Media, c2004.
Recounts the history of slavery and the slave trade in the United States discussing their causes, the slave experience, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and its aftermath.

306.3 Kol

Kolchin, Peter. American slavery, 1619-1877. New York : Hill and Wang, c1993.
Overview of American slavery paying equal attention to slaves and their masters, their relationship, and the centrality of that relationship to the Old South.

306.3 LES

Lester, Julius. From slave ship to freedom road. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1998.
Presents the author's meditations on twenty paintings by artist Rod Brown, designed to encourage reflection on the hardships faced by African-American slaves until their emancipation.

306.3 MAC

Macht, Norman L. (Norman Lee), 1929-. The history of slavery. San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c1997.
Examines the practice of slavery as it existed in early Mediterranean civilizations, during the Middle Ages, in Africa, among Indians in the Americas, and in the United States.

306.3 Ofo

Ofosu-Appiah, L. H. People in bondage : African slavery since the 15th century. Minneapolis, Minn. : Runestone Press, 1993.
A history of the enslavement of Africans in different places and in different cultures, how it happened and what it was like.

306.3 SLA

Slavery today. San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2004.
Contains twelve essays that provide varying perspectives on the issue of slavery in the modern world, discussing sex slavery, slave redemption, reparations, and other topics.

306.3 THO

Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest we forget : the passage from Africa to slavery and emancipation. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c1997.
A companion guide to the Black Holocaust Exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia, containing essays that provide information on various aspects of slavery and the slave trade, and including reproductions of authentic documents related to slavery.

306.362 GRO

Growing up in slavery : stories of young slaves as told by themselves. 1st ed. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2005.
Presents ten personal stories of slaves as they describe the hardships, beatings, and tortures of slavery, how some overcame those obstacles to learn to read and write, how they challenged authority, and escaped to freedom.

323.1 CIV

The civil rights movement. San Diego : Greenhaven Press ;, c2003.
The end of slavery and the quest for equality -- Segregation and civil disobedience -- Radicalization and a changing movement -- Broadening the agenda -- The close of the civil rights century -- Personal narratives: the way it was. Discusses the history of African Americans' struggle for equality, including the non-violent and violent protests of the 1960s, affirmative action, and the current state of race relations.

326 BUR

Burnside, Madeleine. Spirits of the passage : the Transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century. New York : Simon & Schuster Editions, c1997.
A visual chronicle of the early years of the slave trade, following the course of the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship recently recovered from the waters off the coast of Key West, Florida, on the first of its slaving voyages in the late 1600s, from London to the west coast of Africa, to the colonies of the Americas, and back to Europe.

326 Col

Coleman, J. Winston. Slavery times in Kentucky. University of North Carolina Press, 1940.

326.0973 NAS

Nash, Gary B. The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
A narrative of African-Americans during the American Revolutionary period and their struggles for freedom as many fled slavery to fight for the British.

342.73 Her

Herda, D. J., 1948-. The Dred Scott case : slavery and citizenship. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1994.
Text and accompanying black and white photographs describe the people involved on both sides of the famous Supreme Court case, regarding whether or not slaves had rights as citizens of the United States.

345.73 McL

McLaurin, Melton Alonza. Celia, a slave. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1991.
Story of a young slave, Celia, who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder.

759.13 FEE

Feelings, Tom. The middle passage : white ships/black cargo. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1995.
A collection of narrative paintings, depicting the capture of African men and women and the horrible conditions they endured on their passage across the Atlantic to be sold into slavery. In the introduction Feelings describes his experiences and the process that led to the creation of these paintings.

811.009 Wag

Wagner, Jean, 1919-. Black poets of the United States : from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1973.
Translation of: Les Poetes Negres des Etats-Unis. A study of the major black poets of the United States from early slavery times to Langston Hughes.

917.3 Fra

Franklin, John Hope, 1915-. From slavery to freedom; : a history of Negro Americans. 4th ed. New York, : Knopf, [1974].

917.304 Wit

With women's eyes : visitors to the New World, 1775-1918. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1993.
Janet Schaw, caught in a revolution -- Madam Riedesel at the Battle of Saratoga -- Madama de La Tour du Pin manages a New York farm -- Fanny Wright's reasoned view of democracy -- Frances Trolloppe did not love us -- Harriet Martineau visits the South and is threatened in Boston -- Fanny Kemble and slavery -- Anna Jameson on the Chippewa Indians -- Fredrika Bremer's impressions of women. This book contains some of the observations of European women who visted America between 1775 and 1918. Their diverse backgrounds help present a balanced view of day-to-day-life in the United States.

920 Deu

Deur, Lynne. Doers and dreamers; : social reformers of the nineteenth century. Minneapolis, : Lerner Publications Co., [1972].
Brief biographies of fourteen nine-teenth-century men and women involved in such reform movements as women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery.

920 FRA

Fradin, Dennis B. Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves. New York : Clarion Books, c2000.
A note from the author -- Mary Prince -- Fed -- Eliza Harris and Margaret Garner -- Peter and Vina Still -- Henry "Box" Brown and Lear Green -- Ellen and William Craft -- William Wells Brown -- The Oberlin-Wellington rescue of John Prince -- John Anderson -- Ann Maria Weems -- Solomon Northup -- Harriet Tubman -- Afterword. Twelve true accounts of slaves who escaped to freedom from slavery in the American South before the Civil War.

920 FRI

Fritz, Jean. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1994.
Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who opposed slavery so passionately, that she decided to write novels about it, and became the most famous of a renowned family.

920 GAR

Garrison, Mary, 1952-. Slaves who dared : the stories of ten African-American heroes. Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Kids, c2002.
Describes the lives and times of outstanding African Americans who were born as slaves and went on to accomplish great things: Josiah Henson, Frederick Douglas, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Henry Bibb, Booker T. Washington, Susie King Taylor, Nat Love, Robert Smalls, and Sojourner Truth.

920 REM

Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom. New York : New Press, c1998.
Presents transcriptions of interviews conducted in the 1930s and 1940s with former slaves in which they discuss the details of their everyday lives as slaves and after emancipation.

920 TAY

Taylor, Kimberly Hayes, 1962-. Black abolitionists and freedom fighters. Minneapolis : Oliver Press, c1996.
Profiles the lives of eight African-American leaders, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Booker T. Washington, who were instrumental in abolishing slavery or helping former slaves achieve full citizenship.

921 BAL

Ball, Charles, Negro Slave. Charles Ball and American slavery. Austin, TX : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1995.
Early years -- Going south -- Sold -- Plantation life -- A harsh mistress -- Escape -- Caught!. Charles Ball describes his life as a slave and tells of his escape and life as a free man. Illustrated with period artwork and photography.

921 BIB

Bibb, Henry, b. 1815. The life and adventures of Henry Bibb : an American slave. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
An autobiographical account of the life of African-American slave Henry Bibb.

921 Bro

Scott, John Anthony, 1916-. John Brown of Harper's Ferry : with contemporary prints, photographs, and maps. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications, c1988.
Describes the life of the abolitionist whose struggle to free American slaves resulted in the raid on Harpers Ferry.

921 Bur

Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave. New York : Knopf, c1988.
A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

921 CHI

Kenschaft, Lori J. Lydia Maria Child : the quest for racial justice. Oxford [U.K.] ; : Oxford University Press, c2002.
A biography of the popular writer who, in the mid-nineteenth century, gave up her successful literary career to fight for the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and the fair treatment of Native Americans.

921 Dou

Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895. Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words. New York : Knopf, c1994.
A shortened version of Douglass' autobiography describing the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.

921 Dou

Russell, Sharman Apt. Frederick Douglass. New York : Chelsea House, c1988.
A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the early nineteenth century.

921 EQU

Cameron, Ann, 1943-. The kidnapped prince : the life of Olaudah Equiano. New York : Knopf :, c1995.
The biography of Olaudah Equiano, the young African boy who was kidnapped, hidden in an enormous sack, and carried off into slavery, and his struggle with injustice, heartbreak, and his own despair as well as his triumph because of his courage, intelligence, love of adventure, and his unconquerable faith.

921 FRA

Gaustad, Edwin S. (Edwin Scott). Benjamin Franklin. New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
The improper Bostonian -- B. Franklin, printer -- Doctor Franklin -- Pennsylvania politics -- The road to separation -- War and peace -- New nation and aged patriarch. Presents a biography of statesman, inventor, and founding father, Benjamin Franklin from his childhood and youth in Boston, his entrance into politics and attempt to prevent war with England, and his views on slavery and the slave trade.

921 FRE

Wilds, Mary, 1960-. Mumbet : the life and times of Elizabeth Freeman : the true story of a slave who won her freedom. 1st ed. Greensboro, NC : Avisson Press, c1999.
A biography of the eighteenth-century female slave whose court case helped to set precedents that would bar slavery in Massachusetts.

921 HOU

Berry, Mary Frances. My face is black is true : Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2005.
Examines the life of Callie House, a woman who was born into slavery in 1861 and later became a laundress in Nashville, focusing on her demand that the U.S. government pay pensions to ex-slaves for centuries of unpaid labor, and discussing the efforts of the Justice Department to stop House and her followers.

921 Ibr

Alford, Terry. Prince among slaves. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1977.
A biography of an African prince who was captured and spent twenty years in slavery in Mississippi before regaining his freedom and returning to West Africa.

921 Kel

Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-. Ahead of her time : Abby Kelley and the politics of anti-slavery. New York : W.W. Norton, 1991.
Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.

921 SCO

Freedman, Suzanne, 1932-. Roger Taney : the Dred Scott legacy. Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1995.

921 Sto

Hedrick, Joan D., 1944-. Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Biography of the nineteenth-century American author whose novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," attacked slavery in the United States.

921 TRU

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1996.
Biography of Sojourner Truth, a woman born into slavery who, inspired by religion, made herself over into a strong public presence, traveling America in the years between the 1840s and late 1870s, denouncing slavery and advocating freedom, women's rights, and temperance.

940.2 HEA

The 1700s. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2001.
Presents primary and secondary source articles on the major events and cultural characteristics of the eighteenth century around the world, covering such topics as the European monarchs, composers, the Paris art salon, the French and Indian War, American slavery, the Boston Massacre, and child labor.

970.00496 MCK

McKissack, Pat, 1944-. Rebels against slavery : American slave revolts. New York : Scholastic, c1996.
Story of the men and women, slaves and free blacks, Northerners and Southerners, whites and Native Americans, who rebelled against the system of slavery, often giving up their lives in the process.

973 Blo

Blockson, Charles L. The underground railroad. 1st ed. New York : Prentice-Hall Press, c1987.
First-person narratives reveal the active role slaves played in their own escapes. Shows how slaves, with the help of free blacks and some whites, risked all they had to escape to freedom.

973 HAK

Hakim, Joy. Freedom : a history of US. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2003.
A history of the concept of freedom in the U.S. from colonial days to the twenty-first century, discussing such topics as the Revolution, slavery, and immigration, and featuring sidebars, historical documents, and illustrations.

973 JOH

Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948-. Africans in America : America's journey through slavery. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1998.
A historical narrative that chronicles the history of slavery in the United States from the development of slavery in the English colonies through the Civil War.

973 KIN

King, Wilma, 1942-. Toward the promised land : from Uncle Tom's cabin to the onset of the Civil War (1851-1861). New York : Chelsea House, c1995.
Ain't I a woman! -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the power of the pen -- The road to independence -- The color line -- I wrote passes for my grandmother -- The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake -- The legacy of Anthony Burns -- We must not be enemies. Examines social and political conditions in the U.S. before the start of the Civil War and how African-American men and women contributed to the fight against slavery as abolitionists, writers, lecturers, editors, and politicians between 1851 and 1861.

973 MCN

McNeese, Tim. The rise and fall of American slavery : freedom denied, freedom gained. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2004.
The story of Josiah Henson -- The slave trade -- Slavery in the colonies -- Slavery and revolution -- King Cotton -- Abolition and emancipation. Examines the history of slavery, discussing the slave trade, the establishment of the slavery system and its role in the economy of the American South, and abolition and emancipation. Includes a time line, glossary, and resources for further research.

973 NAR

Nardo, Don, 1947-. Braving the New World, 1619-1784 : from the arrival of the enslaved Africans to the end of the American Revolution. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1995.
Sugar revolution : the slave trade develops -- "Fellow sufferers" : early colonial slavery -- From a trickle to a flood -- Plantation boom -- From Africa to America -- Master and slave : maintaining control -- The growth of African American culture -- The long road. Examines the slave trade and the experiences of African-American slaves through 1784.

973 PAU

Paulson, Timothy J. Days of sorrow, years of glory, 1831-1850 : from the Nat Turner revolt to the fugitive slave law. New York : Chelsea House, c1994.
Chronicles the years between Nat Turner's revolt and Congress's passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

973 ROG

Rogers, James T. The antislavery movement. New York : Facts on File, c1994.
Recounts the heroic struggles of those who fought against the institution of slavery, explaining the political, economic, and moral issues involved.

973 WHI

White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-. Let my people go : African Americans, 1804-1860. New York : Oxford University Press, c1996.
Discusses the lives of African Americans from the early years of the nineteenth century to the start of the Civil War.

973.04 Afr

Perseverance. Alexandria, Va : Time-Life Books, c1993.
Text, illustrations, and photographs discuss the fundamental role that African Americans have played in the making of the American republic.

973.2 WOO

Wood, Betty. The origins of American slavery : freedom and bondage in the English colonies. 1st ed. New York : Hill & Wang, 1997.
Discusses the role of the English in the development of the institution of slavery in America, considering the questions of why English colonists felt able to enslave people of West African descent, and what prompted them to do so.

973.5 Fil

Filler, Louis, 1912-. The crusade against slavery, 1830-1860. [1st ed.]. New York, : Harper, [1960].
Examines the ideals, the heroes, and the martyrs of the antislavery movement and the political, social, and economic problems of that period.

975 Bla

Blassingame, John W., 1940-. The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South. Rev. and enl. ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
Studies the American slave community, encompassing the process of enslavement, the development of a black culture, and the slave's family life, religion, work, and physical environment.

975 Kat

Katz, William Loren. Breaking the chains : African-American slave resistance. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, c1990.
Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War.

975 Vla

Vlach, John Michael, 1948-. Back of the big house : the architecture of plantation slavery. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1993.
A study of plantation buildings and spaces, featuring over two hundred photographs and drawings that provide information about the plantation landscape, yard, kitchens, smokehouses, outbuildings, barns, slave quarters, and others, with introductory essays on each type of structure.

975 Whi

White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-. Ar'n't I a woman? : female slaves in the plantation South. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1985.
Examines the way of life of the slave women on plantations in the American South.

975.6 Bef

Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves. Winston-Salem, N.C. : J.F. Blair, c1989.
A firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom for slaves from South Carolina.