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African American

Essential Readings

  • Ferguson, Uncommon Ground. Archaeology and Early African America. 1650-1800, Chapters 1, 2
  • Jordan, White Over Black, Chapter 2
  • McCleskey, The Road to Black Ned’s Forge, Chapter 8 + Appendix 3
  • Dunaway, Slave Families at Risk in the Mountain South
  • Walsh, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove, Chapter 3
  • Chambers, Murder at Montpelier, Chapter 10 + Appendix A
  • Westbury, Slaves of Colonial Virginia: Where They Came From
  • Morgan, Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox
  • Parish, Slavery. History and Historians, Chapter 2
  • Berlin, Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society
  • Davis, America’s Paradox: Slavery and Freedom
  • Slave Narrative: Bethany Veney
  • Slave Narrative: Dan Josiah Lockhart
  • Slave Narrative: Jenny Buchanan
  • Slave Narrative: Rev. Silas Jackson
  • Slave Narrative: Fleming Clark
  • Slave Narrative: Catherine Slim
  • Slave Narratives collected in Weevils in the Wheat
  • Slave Narratives collected in Slave Testimony

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