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
