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Reading - Primary Sources - Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865 (AM407)

General
  • Steven Mintz (ed.), African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877
  • Elizabeth Donnan, Documents illustrative of the slave trade
  • Helen Catterall, Judicial cases concerning slavery
  • Willie Rose, A Documentary history of slavery
  • Paul Escott & David Goldfield eds, Major problems in the history of the American South Vol 1: The Old South
  • Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago (eds.), Slavery and Emancipation
  • John Commons, Documentary history of American Industrial Society, Vol 1: Plantation and Frontier
Slave narratives

These and many other slave narratives are available online at the Documenting the American South site.

Analysis
Travel Accounts
Plantation Life
  • James Clifton, Life and Labor on Argyle Island
  • Fanny Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian plantation
  • J S Bassett, The Southern plantation overseer as revealed in his letters
  • Bennet Barrow, Plantation life in the Florida parishes of Louisiana
  • Susan Sedes, Memorials of a Southern Planter
Microfilm
  • Butler Plantation Papers
  • Egmont Papers
  • Colonial Records of Georgia
Websites

There are many relevant websites relating to American slavery. Use an engine such as Google to locate specific materials.