Academic Articles on Slavery



Barzel, Yoram. An Economic Analysis of Slavery. Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Apr., 1977), pp. 87-110
Beckles, Hilary McD. The Slave-Drivers' War: Bussa and the 1816 Barbados Slave Rebellion. Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, No. 39 (Diciembre de 1985), pp. 85-110
Bellamy, Donnie D. and Diane E. Walker. Slaveholding in Antebellum Augusta and Richmond County, Georgia. Phylon (1960-), Vol. 48, No. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1987), pp. 165-177
Berry, Diana Ramey. "In Pressing Need of Cash": Gender, Skill, and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade. The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, No. 1, Women, Slavery, andHistorical Research (Winter, 2007), pp. 22-36
Berry, Mary F. and John W. Blassingame. Africa, Slavery, & the Roots of Contemporary Black Culture. The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 501-516
Boyd-Bowman, Peter. Negro Slaves in Early Colonial Mexico. The Americas, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Oct., 1969), pp. 134-151
Brink, Dean C. What Did Freedom Mean? The Aftermath of Slavery as Seen by Former Slaves and Former Masters in Three Societies. OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 4, No. 1, The Reconstruction Era (Winter, 1989), pp.35-46
Brown, Sterling. Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs. Phylon, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1st Qtr., 1953), pp. 45-61
Brown, Steve E. Sexuality and the Slave Community. Phylon (1960-), Vol. 42, No. 1 (1st Qtr., 1981), pp. 1-10
Buettinger, Craig. Did Slaves Have Free Will? Luke, a Slave, v. Florida and Crime at the Command of the Master. The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 3 (Winter, 2005), pp. 241-257
Burns, Sarah. Images of Slavery: George Fuller's Depictions of the Antebellum South. American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 35-60
Burroughs, Wilbur Greeley. Oberlin's Part in the Slavery Conflict. Ohio Archaeological and History Quarterly, January 1911.
Cade, John B. Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul., 1935), pp. 294-337
Cantrell, Andrea. WPA Sources for African-American Oral History in Arkansas: Ex-Slave Narratives and Early Settlers' Personal Histories. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 44-67
Cash, Floris Barnett. Kinship and Quilting: An Examination of an African-American Tradition. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Winter, 1995), pp. 30-41
Chaplin, Joyce E. Tidal Rice Cultivation and the Problem of Slavery in South Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1815. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 29-61
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble's Journal: A Woman Confronts Slavery on a Georgia Plantation. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, Women in the American South(1987), pp. 74-79
Cocker, William S. Tom Moreno: A Pensacola Creole. The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jan., 1989), pp. 329-339.
Cohen, Hennig. Slave Names in Colonial South Carolina. American Speech, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1952), pp. 102-107
Cook, Charles Orson and James M. Poteet. "Dem Was Black Times, Sure 'Nough": The Slave Narratives of Lydia Jefferson and Stephen Williams. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 20, No. 3
Costanzo, Angelo. The Narrative of Archibald Monteith, a Jamaican Slave. Callaloo, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 115-130
Crothers, A. Glenn. Quaker Merchants and Slavery in Early National Alexandria, Virginia: The Ordeal of William Hartshorne. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2005
Coulter, E. Merton. Slavery and Freedom in Athens, Georgia, 1860-1866. The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3 (September, 1965), pp. 264-293
Dew, Charles B. Disciplining Slave Ironworkers in the Antebellum South: Coercion, Conciliation, and Accommodation. The American Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 393-418
Diouf, Sylviane A. American Slaves Who Were Readers and Writers. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 24 (Summer, 1999), pp. 124-125
Drake, Frederick C. and R. W. Shufeldt. Secret History of the Slave Trade to Cuba Written By an American Naval Officer, Robert Wilson Schufeldt, 1861. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 218-235
Drimmer, Melvin. Thoughts on the Study of Slavery in the Americas and the Writing of Black History. Phylon (1960-), Vol. 36, No. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1975), pp. 125-139
Eckenrode, H. J. Negroes in Richmond in 1864. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Jul., 1938), pp. 193-200
Edwards, John C. Slave Justice in Four Middle Georgia Counties. The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer, 1973), pp. 265-273
Egerton, Douglas R. Slaves to the Marketplace: Economic Liberty and Black Rebelliousness in the Atlantic World. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 26, No. 4, Connection, Contingency, and Class in the Early Republic's Economy (Winter, 2006), pp. 617-639
Eggert, Gerald G. "Two Steps Forward, A Step-and-a-Half Back": Harrisburg's African American Community in the Nineteenth Century. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (January 1991), pp. 1-36
Epstein, Dena J. Slave Music in the United States before 1860: A Survey of Sources (Part I). Notes, Second Series, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1963), pp. 195-212
Eskew, Glenn T. Black Elitism and the Failure of Paternalism in Postbellum Georgia: The Case of Bishop Lucius Henry Holsey (The Journal of Southern History, Nov. 1992)
Finkelman, Paul. Slaves as Fellow Servants: Ideology, Law, and Industrialization. The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 269-305
Fowler, Fred. Some Undistinguished Negroes. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct., 1920), pp. 476-485
Franklin, John Hope. Slaves Virtually Free in Ante-Bellum North Carolina. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 1943), pp. 284-310.
Haley, Alex. Black History, Oral History, and Genealogy (The Oral History Review, Vol. 1, 1973)
Hall, Robert L. "Yonder Come Day": Religious Dimensions of the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Florida (Florida Historical Quarterly, April 1987), pp. 411-432
Harris, J. William. The Organization of Work on a Yeoman Slaveholder's Farm. Agricultural History, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 39-52.
Hartshorne. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 47-77
Holland, C. G. The Slave Population on the Plantation of John C. Cohoon, Jr. Nansemond County, Virginia, 1811-1863. Selected Demographic Characteristic. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 80, No. 3, Part One (Jul., 1972), pp. 333-340
House. Albert V. Labor Management Problems on Georgie Rice Plantations, 1840-1860. Agricultural History, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct., 1954), pp. 149-155
Jackson, L. P. Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution (The Journal of Negro History, July 1942)
Johnson, Michael P. Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 915-976
Johnson, Michael P. Runaway Slaves and the Slave Communities in South Carolina, 1799 to 1830. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul., 1981), pp. 418-441
Johnson, Paul D. "Goodby to Sambo" The Contribution of Black Slave Narratives to the Abolition Movement.Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Autumn, 1972), pp. 79-84
Jones, Jacqueline. "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Black Women, Work, and the Family under Slavery.Feminist Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Women and Work (Summer, 1982), pp. 235-269.
Joseph, J. W. White Columns and Black Hands: Class and Classification in the Plantation Ideology of the
Georgia and South Carolina Lowcountry. Historical Archaeology, Vol. 27, No. 3 (1993), pp. 57-73.
Juhnke, William E. Benjamin Franklin's View of the Negro and Slavery. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 41, No. 4 (OCTOBER, 1974), pp. 374-388
Kaba, Lansiné. The Atlantic Slave Trade Was Not a "Black-on-Black Holocaust." African Studies Review, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Apr., 2001), pp. 1-20
Labinjoh, Justin. The Sexual Life of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Family Life of Ante-Bellum Slaves. Phylon (1960-), Vol. 35, No. 4 (4th Qtr., 1974), pp. 375-397
Lacey, Barbara E. Visual Images of Blacks in Early American Imprints (The William and Mary Quarterly, Jan. 1996), pp. 137-180
Lack, Paul D. An Urban Slave Community: Little Rock, 1831-1862. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 258-287
Lewis, Ronald L. "The Darkest Abode of Man": Black Miners in the First Southern Coal Field, 1780-1865. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Apr., 1979), pp. 190-202.
Lovell Jr., John. The Social Implications of the Negro Spiritual. The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1939), pp. 634-643
M. A. C. Some Episodes of the American Civil War. The Irish Monthly, Vol. 20, No. 229 (Jul., 1892), pp. 361-378
Marable, Manning. The Meaning of Faith in the Black Mind in Slavery. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 248-264
May, Nicholas. Holy Rebellion: Religious Assembly Laws in Antebellum South Carolina and Virginia. The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 49, No. 3 (JULY 2007), pp. 237-256.
May, Robert E. Invisible Men: Blacks and the U.S. Army in the Mexican War (The Historian)
Meaders, Daniel E. South Carolina Fugitives as Viewed Through Local Colonial Newspapers with Emphasis on Runaway Notices 1732-1801. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Apr., 1975), pp. 288-319
Mohr, Clarence L. Before Sherman: Georgia Blacks and the Union War Effort, 1861-1864. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 331-352
Morgan, Philip D. The Ownership of Property by Slaves in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Low Country. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Aug., 1983), pp. 399-420
Morgan, Philip D. Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700 to 1880. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1982), pp. 563-599
Mulderink III, Earl F. "The Whole Town Is Ringing with It": Slave Kidnapping Charges against Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1839. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Sep., 1988), pp. 341-357
Orser, Jr., Charles E. The Archaeological Analysis of Plantation Society: Replacing Status and Caste with Economicsand Power. American Antiquity, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 735-751
Outland III, Robert B. Slavery, Work, and the Geography of the North Carolina Naval Stores Industry, 1835-1860. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 27-56.
Paquette, Robert L. Jacobins of the Lowcountry: The Vesey Plot on Trial. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 185-192
Parkhurst, Jessie W. The Role of the Black Mammy in the Plantation Household. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul., 1938), pp. 349-369
Penningroth, Dylan. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. The American Historical Review, Vol. 114, No. 3 (June 2009), pp. 765-766
Penningroth, Dylan. Slavery, Freedom, and Social Claims to Property among African Americans in Liberty County, Georgia, 1850-1880. The Journal of American History, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Sep., 1997), pp. 405-435
Phillips, Ulrich B. A Jamaica Slave Plantation. Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1 (APRIL - MAY - JUNE. 1949), pp. 4-13
Prior, Moody E. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Summer, 1979), pp. 635-650
Ramey, Daina L. "She Do a Heap of Work": Female Slave Labor on Glynn County Rice and Cotton Plantations. The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 4, Georgia Women: Perspectives on Class, Race, and Ethnicity. (Winter 1998), pp. 707-734
Reckord, Mary. The Jamaica Slave Rebellion of 1831. Past & Present, No. 40 (Jul., 1968), pp. 108-125
Reid, Robert D. The Negro in Alabama During the Civil War. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Jul., 1950), pp. 265-288
Ross, Margaret Smith. Nathan Warren, a Free Negro for the Old South. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 1956), pp. 53-61
Ruef, Martin and Ben Fletcher. Legacies of American Slavery: Status Attainment among Southern Blacks after Emancipation. Social Forces, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 445-480
Schantz, Mark S. "A Very Serious Business": Managerial Relationships on the Ball Plantations, 1800-1835. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 88, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 1-22
Schafer, Judith Kelleher. New Orleans Slavery in 1850 as Seen in Advertisements. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 1981), pp. 33-56
Schafer, Judith Kelleher. "Open and Notorious Concubinage": The Emancipation of Slave Mistresses by Will and theSupreme Court in Antebellum Louisiana. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 28, No. 2
(Spring, 1987), pp. 165-182
Sekora, John. Black Message/White Envelope: Genre, Authenticity, and Authority in the Antebellum Slave Narrative. Callaloo, No. 32 (Summer, 1987), pp. 482-515
Sheridan, Richard B. From Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives and Contrabands Into Kansas, 1854·1865 (Kansas History, Spring 1989)
Sitterson, J. Carlyle. The William J. Minor Plantations: A Study In Ante-Bellum Absentee Ownership. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Feb., 1943), pp. 59-74
Smith, John David. A Different View of Slavery: Black Historians Attack the Proslavery Argument, 1890-1920. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Autumn, 1980), pp. 298-311
Smith, Julia F. Slavetrading in Antebellum Florida. The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jan., 1972), pp. 252-261
Spady, Jame O'Neil. Power and Confession: On the Credibility of the Earliest Reports of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy. The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2 (April 2011), pp. 287-304.
St. Martin, Gerard L. and Mathé Allain. A Slave Trial in Colonial Natchitoches. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 1987), pp. 57-91
Starobin, Robert. Disciplining Industrial Slaves in the Old South. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Apr., 1968), pp. 111-128.
Starobin, Robert. Privileged Bondsmen and the Process of Accommodation: The Role of Houseservants and Drivers as Seen in Their Own Letters. Journal of Social History, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 46-70
Stavisky, Leonard. The Origins of Negro Craftsmanship in Colonial America. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct., 1947), pp. 417-429.
Stealey III, John Edmund. Slavery and the Western Virginia Salt Industry. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 105-131
Taylor, Paul S. Plantation Laborer before the Civil War. Agricultural History, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1954), pp. 1-21
Transplanting Free Negroes to Ohio from 1815 to 1858 (The Journal of Negro History, June 1916)
Tully, Alan. Patterns of Slaveholding in Colonial Pennsylvania: Chester and Lancaster Counties 1729-1758. Journal of Social History, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Spring, 1973), pp. 284-305
Turner, Lorenzo Dow. The Anti-Slavery Movement Prior to the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade (1641-1808). The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct., 1929), pp. 373-402
Turner, Lorenzo Dow. The Second Period of Militant Abolitionism (1850-1861). The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct., 1929), pp. 440-475.
Twillie, Gwendolyn B. The Contributions of Enslaved Africans and Their Descendants to the Growth and Development of the Americas. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Mar., 1995), pp. 419-430
Wall, Bennett H. Medical Care of Ebenezer Pettigrew's Slaves. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Dec., 1950), pp. 451-470
Wells, Paul F. Fiddling as an Avenue of Black-White Musical Interchange. Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1/2 (Spring - Autumn, 2003), pp. 135-147
White, John. Negro Spirituals and the Slave Experience. Journal of American Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Aug., 1983), pp. 251-263
White, Shane. Black Fugitives in Colonial South Carolina. AJAS, Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 1980), pp. 25-40
White, Shane. Review: Digging Up The African-American Past: Historical Archaeology, Photography, and Slavery. Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1 (July, 1992), pp. 37-47
Williams-Myers, A. J. Slavery, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Americas: A Historiographical Scenario on the Theses of Genovese and Others. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, Mar., 1996
Theses of Genovese and Others. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Mar., 1996), pp. 381-400.
Wilson, Calvin Dill. Black Masters: A Side-Light on Slavery. The North American Review, Vol. 181, No. 588 (Nov., 1905), pp. 685-698
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. The Mask of Obedience: Male Slave Psychology in the Old South. The American Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 5 (Dec., 1988), pp. 1228-1252
Yanuck, Julius. The Garner Fugitive Slave Case. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jun., 1953), pp. 47-66
Yarbrough, Fay A. Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Aug., 2005), pp. 559-588
Young, Amy L., Michael Tuma, Cliff Jenkins. The Role of Hunting to Cope with Risk at Saragossa Plantation, Natchez, Mississippi. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 103, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 692-704
Young, Jason. Through the Prism of Slave Art: History, Literature, Memory, and the Work of P. Sterling. The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, No. 4, P. Sterling Stuckey: In Praise of an Intellectual Legacy (Autumn, 2006), pp. 389-400
Young, Jeffrey R. Ideology and Death on a Savannah River Rice Plantation, 1833-1867: Paternalism amidst "a Good Supply of Disease and Pain." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 673-706
Zanger, Jules. The "Tragic Octoroon" In Pre-Civil War Fiction. American Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 1966), pp. 63-70