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University of North Carolina Press
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 Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
by Philip D. Morgan
By the late seventeenth century, Virginia had a plantation economy in search of a labor force, whereas South Carolina had a labor force in search of a plantation economy. A tobacco economy for decades, Virginia imported slaves on a large scale only when its supply of indentured servants dwindled toward the end of the century. By the time Virginia began to recruit more slaves than servants, a large white population dominated the colony. In fact, before the last decade of the seventeenth century, Virginia hardly qualified as a slave society. Only by the turn of the eighteenth century did slaves come to play a central role in the society's productive activities and form a sizable, though still small, proportion of its population. On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. MORE |
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Dylan C. Penningroth
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. MORE |
 Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
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 Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil Warby John David Smith
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 Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slaveryby John Michael Vlach
Behind the "Big Houses" of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves' own point of view. MORE |
 Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830by Sylvia R. Frey
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. MORE |
 Defining Moments: African American Commemoration & Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913by Kathleen Ann Clark
With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative traditions in the South, where events such as Emancipation Day and Fourth of July ceremonies served as opportunities for African Americans to assert their own understandings of slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation - efforts that were vital to the struggles to define, assert, and defend African American freedom and citizenship. MORE |
 Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum Southby Michael A. Gomez
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. MORE |
 Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American Southby Mark M. Smith
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. MORE |
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
by Heather Andrea Williams
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. MORE |
 Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake & Lowcountryby Philip D. Morgan
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. MORE |
 Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth Century Slave Narrativesby Paul D. Escott
This is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives in the Federal Writers' Project. Escott read nearly 2,400 narratives to establish 81 categories of information for computer analysis. Tables presenting this data are set within a well-organized text that includes many quotations. MORE |
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Dylan C. Penningroth
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. MORE |
 Within the Plantation Household: Black & White Women of the Old Southby Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. MORE |
 Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantationsby Sharia M. Fett
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South. Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view of health and healing that was distinctly at odds with slaveholders' property concerns. MORE |
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