Gobbets

Georgia Slave Law 1770

Questions

What was the prevailing English attitude toward Africans before 1607? Were the English inherently racist? Why did Africans become enslaved in British America? How and why did the definition of American slavery come about?

Core Reading

• • Jordan, Winthrop D., White over black: American attitudes towards the Negro. Part 1: Genesis [ebook]

E-resources

• C.Degler, 'Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice' Comparative Studies in History and Society (1959)

• Winthrop D Jordan, 'Modern tensions and the origins of American slavery' JSH (1962)

• O & M.Handlin, 'Origins of the Southern Labour system' WMQ (1950)
• Eltis, David The rise of African slavery in the Americas
• G.Nash, 'From Freedom to Bondage in seventeenth century Virginia' Reviews in American History (1982)
• Kulikoff, Alan 'The origins of African American society in tidewater Maryland and Virginia 1700-1790' WMQ 35 (1978) 226-259
• Haywood, C. Robert, 'Mercantilism and colonial slave labour, 1700-1763', JSH, XXIII, (1957), 454-464.
• Sirmans, M. Eugene, 'The legal status of the slave in South Carolina, 1670-1740', JSH, XXVIII, (1962), 462-473.

• Russel Menard, 'The Maryland slave population, 1658-1730' WMQ (1975)

• Alden T Vaughan, 'Blacks in Virginia: A Note on the first decade' WMQ (1972)
• Jon Sensbach, 'Charting a course in Early African American History' WMQ (1993)
• William Wiecek, 'The statutory law of slavery and race in the thirteen colonies of British America' WMQ (1977)
• Alpert, Jonathan, 'The origins of slavery in the United States: the Maryland precedent' AJLH (1970)

Additional Reading

• Jordan, Winthrop, White man's burden ch 1 & 2

• Wood, Betty, The Origins of American Slavery

• Fredrickson, G. M., The black image in the white mind.(ch2-4)

• Walvin, J. Black and White; the Negro and English society, 1555-1945

• Starr, Raymond, Race prejudice & the origins of slavery in America

• Fredrickson, G. M., The arrogance of race

• Genovese, Eugene, The world the slaveholders made (pt 1, ch 2)

• Essah, Patience, A house divided: slavery and emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865

• Dunn, R.S., 'Servants and Slaves' in Greene & Pole [eds] Colonial British America [1984]

• Watson, Alan, Slave law in the Americas
• Morris, Thomas, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
• Schwarz, Philip, Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865
• Morgan, Philip, 'British Encounters with Africans and African Americans, 1600-1780' in Bernard Bailyn and Philip Morgan (eds), Strangers within the Realm.
• Durant, Thomas J., ed., Plantation society and race relations : the origins of inequality