A reading list on slavery

[Johan Steele]

Here are a few of the books regarding slavery I have in my library...

Barney, William L., Flawed Victory A New Perspective on the Civil War, Praeger Publishers, 1975.

Cheek, William F., Black Resistance Before the Civil War, Glencoe Press, 1970.

Fogel, Robert William & Engerman, Stanley L., Time on the Cross the Economics of American Negro Slavery, Little Brown & Company, 1974.

Glatthaar, Joseph T., Forged in Battle The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers, The Free Press, 1990.

McPherson, James M., Marching Toward Freedom, Facts on File, Inc,1991.

Rose, Willie Lee, Rehearsal for Reconstruction The Port Royal Experiment, Vintage Books, 1967.

Spencer, Samuel R. Jr., Booker T. Washington and the Negro’s Place in American Life, Little, Brown & Co, 1955.

Synnestvedt, Sig, The White Response to Black Emancipation, Macmillon Company, 1972.

Trudeau, Noah Andre, Like Men of War, Little Brown & Company, 1998.

Woodward, C. Vann, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Oxford University Press, 1974.

[Johan Steele]

McLaurin, Melton A., Celia, A Slave, Avon Books, 1991.

Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Dover, 2001.

[Johan Steele]

I'm curious why noone else has added anything?

[ole]

OK. I have several, but am currently reading Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis. Really quite moderate, so far.

ole

[unionblue]

Shane,

I've been reading and using in my posts here,

The Slaveholding Republic, An Account Of The United States Government's Relations To Slavery, by Don D. Fehrenbacher.

Here's another one I have ordered,

Slave Trading in the Old South, by Frederic Bancroft.  Here is a link about it:

http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/1996/3103.html

I'll post more soon.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[Johan Steele]

A few more I've read in the last year.

Berlin, Ira, Freedom; The Black Military Experience
Brewer, James, The Confedertae Negro: Virginia’s Craftsmen & Military Laborers
Durden, Robert, The Gray and the Black

Jordan, Ervin, Black Confedertaes & Afro Yankees in the Civil War

McPherson, James M., The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes felt and acted during the War for the Union

McPherson, James M.,The Struggle for Equality:Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War & Reconstruction

Meltzer, Milton, In Their Own Words A History of the American Negro 1619-1865,

Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the Civil War