Gobbets

• Douglass, chs 5, 6
• Savannah Grand Jury Presentments

Questions

Why did slavery spread to the towns? How different was urban or industrial slavery compared to plantation slavery? What did slaves think of urban slavery? Was urban slavery in decline or stable in the late antebellum era?

Core Reading

Lockley, Tim "Slaveholders and Slaves in Savannah's 1860 Census" Urban History 41.4 (November 2014), 647-663.

Schafer, Judith, 'New Orleans slavery in 1850 as seen in advertisements' JSH 47 (1981) 52-56

• Dew Charles, 'David Ross and the Oxford Iron Works: A Study of Industrial Slavery in the early 19thC South' WMQ (1974)

E-resources

• Schweniger, Loren, 'The free-slave phenomenon James P. Thomas and the black community in ante-bellum Nashville', Civil War History, XXII, (1976), 293-307
• Sheldon, Marianne, 'Black-white relations in Richmond Virginia, 1782-1820' JSH 45 (1979) 27-44
• Marks, Bayly, 'Skilled blacks in antebellum St Mary's County, Maryland' JSH 53, (1987) 537-564
• Whitman, Stephen, 'Industrial slavery at the margins: the Maryland chemical works' JSH 59 (1993) 31-62

Further reading

• Wade, Richard C., Slavery in the cities: the South, 1820-1860. 
• Goldin, Claudia D., Urban slavery in the American South. 
• Fields, Barbara, Slavery and Freedom on the middle ground, Maryland during the nineteenth century (ch 3)
• Phillips, Christopher , Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860
• Johnson, Whittington , Black Savannah, 1788-1864
• Fraser, Walter, Savannah in the Old South
• Lewis, Ronald, Coal, Iron and slaves: industrial slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865
• Miller E, & Genovese, E, Plantation, town and county (pt 3)
• Dew, Charles, Bond of Iron: Masters and Slaves at Buffalo Forge