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Bibliography: African American history

Berlin, Ira. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York, 1998.

Dailey, Jane Elizabeth. Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia. Chapel Hill, 2000.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. ChapelHill, 1988. Review

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. Amherst, 1987.

Goldfield, David R. Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton Rouge, 1990. Review

Hodges, F. H. Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society. Richmond, 2002.

Hine, D. and Thompson, K. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. New York, 1999.

Jordan, Ervin. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia. Charlottesville, 1995. Review

Katz, William Loren. Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance. New York, 1998.

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York, 1975. Review

Russell, John. The Free Negro in Virginia. 1619-1865. New York, 1969.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. Cambridge, 1998 (reprint edition).

Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. New York, 1995 (reprint edition).


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