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- Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of book - "I will be heard!": Abolitionism in America Documents our country’s intellectual, moral, and political struggle to achieve freedom for all Americans. Featuring rare books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other materials from Cornell’s pre-eminent anti-slavery and and Civil War collection
- Making of America A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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"I will be heard!": Abolitionism in America
Primary Research and Reference Materials
Suggested texts from your course syllabus:
DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction
White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a Woman? : Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Genovese, Eugene. The World the Slaveholders Made : Two Essays in Interpretation
_______________ Ed. The Slave Economies. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth and Eugene Genovese. Fruits of Merchant Capital : Slavery and Bourgeois Property inthe Rise and Expansion of Capitalism.
Gaspar, David Barry and Darlene Clark Hine. Eds. More Than Chattel : Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Lott, Tommy L. Ed. Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy.Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
___________. Generations of Captivity : A History of African-American Slaves.
Berlin, Ira. Ed. et al. Remembering slavery : African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slaveryand Freedom.
__________. Families and freedom : A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era.
Patterson, Orlando. Rituals of blood : Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries
______________. Slavery and Social Death : A Comparative Study
Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex : Essays in Atlantic History
Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture : Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave religion : The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Blassingame, John W. The slave community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
Blassingame, John. Ed. Slave Testimony : Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies.Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made together : Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century
Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth-Century America
Films: Ship of Slaves (Africana Studies Reserve) and Roots (Uris Library)
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