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Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the Antebellum South
Slave narratives available on SU John B. Cade Library’s website (Southern Univ. Prof. John B. Cade Sr. and a group of his students traveled throughout the South in the 1930s to interview former slaves.)

Bibliography

Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 204p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 Sp2af/

Andrews, William L. Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 389p. Appendix. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 An261s/

Ash, Steven V. The Black Experience in the Civil War South. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2013. 127p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 As31bL

Barber, Daniel. African American Medical Culture in the Antebellum South: As Remembered in the WPA Narratives. Irvine, CA: University of California, 2015. 49p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 975 B23aa/

Bellesfield, Deborah Webb. Social Stratification and the Twentieth Century South: Reflections on the Roles of Limited Education, Race, and Politics, with Special Reference to Mill Towns. Dominguez Hills, CA: California State University, 1998. 91p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 976 B41so/

Berlin, Ira et. al. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States—Series I, Volume III, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 937p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B455bk, Ser. 1, V. 3/

Berlin, Ira. ed. et. al. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States—Series I, Volume II, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 776p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B455bk, Ser. 1, V. 2/

Beveridge, Charles E. and Charles Capen McLaughlin, eds. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume II: Slavery and the South, 1852-1857. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. 503p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 OL5sL/

Brooks, Rosa B. All Kinfolks: A Large Collection of Black American Genealogies from 72 Families, Over 2,300 Names, Covering the States of FL, GA, NC, SC, VA and More!. McDonough, GA: SOGM, Inc., 2013. 181p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B79al/

Brown, Karida L. Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 252p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B812go/

Buckley, Gail Lumet. The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family. New York: Grove Press, 2016. 353p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B85bL/

Buthelezi, Canaan Jabulani. A Critical Analysis on Bantu School Boards, 1954-1978: Local Administration of Black Education in South Africa. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 2000. 224p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 968 B97ca/

Carney, Judith A. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 240p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 C217b/

Cimbala, Paul A. and Randall M. Miller. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999. 363p. Index. Notes. /GC 975 F876c/

Cimprich, John. Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. 226p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.7 C48n/

Cooper, Jean L. Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations: Locations, Plantations, Surnames and Collections. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. 191p. Indices. /GC 975 C784gea/

Cox, Marcus S. From Racial Uplift to Personal Advancement: African American Attitudes Toward Military Service in the Deep South, 1941-1973. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 2001. 209p. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes.

Diouf, Sylviane A. Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 393p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D624sl/

Dwyer, Erin Austin. Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 284p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 975 D97m/

Fede, Andrew. People Without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992. 263p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 F316pe/

Fede, Andrew. Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United States South. New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books, 2011. 395p. Index. Notes. Legal History & Biography Series. /GC 973.068 F316r/

FitzHenry, Wendy. Motivating Factors in the Benevolent Treatment of Slaves in the Antebellum South. . Dominguez Hills, CA: W. FitzHenry, 2007. 93p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 975 F57mo/

Frey, Sylvia R. and Betty Wood. . Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 285p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 F89co/

Fritz, Timothy David. More Than a Footnote: Native American and African American Relations on the Southern Colonial Frontier, 1513-1763. Charleston, SC: The College of Charleston and the Citadel, 2008. 83p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 976 F91mo/

Futrell, Samantha. They Came Up Out of the Water: Evangelicalism and Ethiopian Baptists in the Southern Lowcountry and Jamaica, 1737-1806. Lynchburg, VA: Liberty University, 2013. 118p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 929.102 B22fu/

Genovese, Eugene D. and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 232p. Index. Notes. /GC 975 G28fa/

Giliomee, Hermann. The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 698p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 968 G396af/

Hayes, John. Hard, Hard Religion: Interracial Faith in the Poor South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 238p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975 H326ha/

Holmes, Linda Janet. Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2023. 193p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 H734s/

Krauthamer, Barbara. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 211p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 K86b/

Langellier, John P. Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2020. 436p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.001 L26s/

Levingston, Earl Ray, Jr. They Don't Sing Like They Used To: Negro Soldier's Resistance to Jim Crow in1898. Arlington, TX: University of Texas, 2007. 116p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 976 L57th/

Luke, Jenny M. . Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South. . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 193p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L969d/

Lussana, Sergio A. My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 235p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 L975my/

May, Robert E. Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 332p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 975 M451yu/

McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South. . Lanham,MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 181p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 M132fo/

Merritt, Keri Leigh. Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 361p. Appendix. Index. Notes. Cambridge Studies on the American South Series. /GC 973.068 M553ma/

Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2021. 385p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 M593a/

Milteer, Warren Eugene, Jr. Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 363p.

Murphy, Sharon Ann. Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 419p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976 M95b/

Niedermeier, Silvan. The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930-1955. . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 213p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976 N55c/

Noble, Vanessa. Doctors Divided: Gender, Race and Class Anomalies in the Production of Black Medical Doctors in Apartheid South Africa, 1948 to 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan, 2005. 360p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 968 D93do/

Pellum, Kimberly Brown Ph.D. Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 142p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 J65mcd/

Pollitt, Phoebe Ann. . African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965. . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016. 228p. Appendices. Bibliography. Photographs. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies Series, No. 37. /GC 975 F764af

Potter, Amy E., et. al. Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2022. 348p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975 P85re/

Powell, Lawrence N. New Masters: Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. 253p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. /GC 975 P87nm/

Robinson, Michael D. A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South. . Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 294p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Civil War America Series. /GC 973.7 R56un/

Ruef, Martin. Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 285p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 R836be/

Schoeman, Karel. Portrait of a Slave Society: The Cape of Good Hope, 1717-1795. Pretoria, South Africa: Protea Book House, 2012. 1339p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 968.7 Sch62po/

Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 261p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 975 Si34sc/

Smith, John David. We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. 133p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sm51we/

Stevenson, Judith S. This Thing is Not Finished: Memory and the Commodification of Justice in Munsieville Township, South Africa, 1980-2003. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, 2006. 335p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 968 St48m/

Stokes, Christopher. Catholics in Beulahland: The Church's Encounter with Anti-Catholicism, Nativism, and Anti-Abolitionism in the Carolinas and Georgia, 1820-1845. Houston, TX: Rice University, 2001. 297p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 975 St6c/

van der Walt, J. C. Zululand True Stories, 1780 to 1978: Child Slavery in South Africa, 1837-1877. Richards Bay, South Africa: J. C. van der Walt, 2011. 360p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 968.4 V2828zu/

Waite, Kevin. West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 372p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. The David J. Webster Series in The New Borderlands History. /GC 979 W13w/

Wells-Oghoghomeh, Alexis. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina, 2021. 307p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 975 W462s/

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