Reading - Primary Sources - Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865 (AM407)
General
- Steven Mintz (ed.), African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877
- Elizabeth Donnan, Documents illustrative of the slave trade
- Helen Catterall, Judicial cases concerning slavery
- Willie Rose, A Documentary history of slavery
- Paul Escott & David Goldfield eds, Major problems in the history of the American South Vol 1: The Old South
- Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago (eds.), Slavery and Emancipation
- John Commons, Documentary history of American Industrial Society, Vol 1: Plantation and Frontier
Slave narratives
These and many other slave narratives are available online at the site.
- George P. Rawick, [ed.], The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (31 vols) see also the online collection of 2,300 narratives at the .
- Charles L. Perdue, Thomas Barden, and Robert K. Philips (eds.), Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves
- Charles Ball,
- W W Brown,
- A Steward,
- Sam Ward,
- John Blassingame, Slave testimony
- Solomon Northup,
- Frederick Douglass,
- Arna Bontemps, Great Slave Narratives - ; ;
- Harriet Jacobs,
- William Katz, Five slave narratives - Lunsford Lane; Fugitive Blacksmith (W C Pennington); Wm W Brown; My Life in the South (Jacob Stroyer); Moses Grandy Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin on ole massa; Henry Bibb; W W Brown; Solomon Northup William Andrews, Six women's slave narratives - Old Elizabeth; Mattie L Jackson; A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgold
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C W Larison, Silvia DuBois, a biography
- Robert Starobin, Blacks in Bondage, the letters of American slaves
- T R Gray,
- Henry Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A compilation of source material
- Yuval Taylor, I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives.v.1: 1770-1849,v.2: 1849-1891
Analysis
- Charles Davis, The Slaves' Narrative
Travel Accounts
- Frederick Olmsted,
- Frederick Olmsted, Journey through the backcountry
- Frederick Olmsted,
- Frederick Olmsted,
- Charles Lyell,
- Basil Hall,
- E. Abdy, Tour in the United States
- James Stirling,
- E. Schwaab, Travels in the Old South
- E. Davies,
- A. Marjoribanks,
- J. Benwell,
Plantation Life
- James Clifton, Life and Labor on Argyle Island
- Fanny Kemble,
- J S Bassett, The Southern plantation overseer as revealed in his letters
- Bennet Barrow, Plantation life in the Florida parishes of Louisiana
- Susan Sedes, Memorials of a Southern Planter
Microfilm
- Butler Plantation Papers
- Egmont Papers
- Colonial Records of Georgia
Websites
There are many relevant websites relating to American slavery. Use an engine such as Google to locate specific materials.