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Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution. Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers, 1990.

Newman, Richard and Marcia Sawyer. Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know about African-American History. New York: Penguin, 1996.

Newton, John, ed. by Bernard Martin and Mark Spurrell. The Journal of a Slave Trader (John Newton) 1750 -1754. London: The Epworth Press, 1962.

Nichols, Charles H. Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves' Account of Their Bondage and Freedom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.

Northrup, David, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 2001.

Owen, Nicholas, ed. by Eveline Martin. Journal of a Slave-Dealer. London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1930.

Ownby, Ted, ed. Black and White Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

Palmie, Stephen, ed. Slave Cultures and the Culture of Slavery. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1995.

Parker, Freddie L. Stealing a Little Freedom: Advertisements for Slave Runaways in North Carolina, 1791-1840. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

______. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

Perdue, Charles Jr. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.

Piersen, William D. From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: An Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Rae, Noel, ed. Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900. New York: The Stonesong Press, 1996.

Reynolds, Edward. Stand the Storm: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, 1985.

Robotham, Rosemarie, ed. Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Simon and Schuster Editions, 1997.

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed., The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Inc., 1997.

______. Chronology of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1999.

Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso, 1991.

Rogers, George A. and R. Frank Saunders, Jr. Swamp Water and Wiregrass: Sketches of Coastal Georgia. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984.

Rose, Willie Lee, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Rowland, Lawrence S., Alexander Moore and George C. Rogers, Jr. The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina. Vol. 1, 1514-1861. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

Sanders, Ronald. Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

Schwarz, Philip H. Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Schwarz, Suzanne, ed. Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Wrexham, Clywd: Bridge Books, 1995.

Scott, William R. and William G. Shade, eds., Upon These Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Snediker, Quentin. "Searching for the Historic 'Amistad,'" The Log of Mystic Seaport 49 (spring 1998), 86-95.

Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth- Century Virginia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

______. Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Sollers, Werner, ed. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. New York: Norton, 2001.

Solow, Barbara L. Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Stampp, Kenneth M. Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.

Starobin, Robert S. Industrial Slavery in the Old South. London: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Svaleson, Leif. The Slave Ship Fredensborg. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Tibbles, Anthony, ed. Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity. London: National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1994.

Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Twining, Mary and Keith Baird, eds. Sea Island Roots: Studies in African Cultural Continuities in Georgia and South Carolina. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1988.

Tyler-McGraw, Marie and Gregg Kimball. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond: Valentine Museum, 1988.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The African Slave Trade From the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. Paris: UNESCO, 1978.

Unsworth, Barry. Sacred Hunger. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Virginia Historical Society. Guide to African-American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society. Compiled by F. Holly Hodges. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1995.

Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Walvin, James. An African's Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797. London: Cassell Academic, 1998.

______. Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora (The Black Atlantic). Herndon, VA: Cassell Academic, 2000.

Westbury, Susan Alice. "Colonial Virginia and the Atlantic Slave Trade," Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.

White: Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: Norton, 1985.

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina, From 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1974.

______. Strange New Land: African Americans, 1617-1776. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1820-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Yentsch, Anne Elizabeth. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.


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