History 125 Course Guide

Databases

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• Slavery Images
• NC Runaway Slave Advertisements

Assigned Readings

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave      (excerpts)
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (excerpts)
• Amani Marshall, “‘They Will Endeavor to Pass for Free’: Enslaved Runaways' Performances of Freedom in Antebellum South Carolina,” Slavery & Abolition 31, no. 2 (2010): 161-180. (available through the library catalog)

Helpful Readings

• John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
• Adam Rothman, Slave country: American expansion and the origins of the Deep South (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005).
• David Brion Davis, Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
• Betty Wood, Slavery in colonial America, 1619-1776 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005).
• Shane White and Graham White, "Slave Clothing and African-American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Past & Present, no. 148 (1995): 149-86.
• Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
• Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz,Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1790 (Philadelphia, Pa., 1989).
• John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
• Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study,(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982).
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Solomon Northup, “Twelve Years a Slave” excerpt (1853)
• Frederick Douglass, “Reconstruction” Atlantic Monthly 18 (1866): 761-765
• Kolchin, P. The South and the World. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 565-580
• Shane White and Graham White, “Slave Hair and African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage