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Chronology
on
the History of Slavery
Harper's Weekly
Black
History
The
Terrible
Transformation
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Academic
essays
on slavery
BOOKS
Eastman, Mary H. Aunt
Phillis's
Cabin, or Southern Life as It Is (1852)
Goodell, William. Slavery
and Anti-Slavery: A History of the Great Struggle in Both
Hemispheres
(1852)
Olmsted, Frederick Law. A
Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on their
Economy
(1856)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A
Key to Understanding Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
Trexler, Harrison Anthony. Slavery
in Missouri, 1804-1865 (1914)
MAPS
Slave
trade
and population maps
VIDEOS
The Slave
Kingdoms:
The Ashanti, Part 1 (12 min.)
Slave
kingdoms:
Dahomey and Ouidah, Part 2 (23 min.)
Wonders of
the African World: Episodes 3 & 4 (1:46 min.)
Wonders of
the African World: Episodes 5 & 6 (1:46 min.)
The
History
of Slavery In America (28 min.)
Slavery
And
The Making Of America (3:43 min.)
Slavery,
Ships
and Sickness - Professor Stuart Anderson (51:51 min.)
Journey
through
Slavery prt 1 - Terrible Transformation (1:22 min.)
Journey
through
Slavery prt 2 - Revolution (1:23 min.)
Journey
through
Slavery prt 3 - Brotherly Love (1:23 min.)
Journey
through
Slavery prt 4 - Judgment.Day (1:22 min.)
AFRICA
Tippu Tip owned 10,000 slaves
Francisco de Sousa, Viceroy of Ouidah
The
Story
of Africa (BBC)
The
Atlantic
Slave Trade
The
Slave
Route Project: Landmarks and Relics of Slavery
Slavery
and
the African Slave Trade in Pre-Colonial Africa
The
Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade And Ghana
MALE SLAVES
Male
slaves
FEMALE SLAVES
Female
slaves
FREE BLACKS
Free Blacks in Antebellum America
WHITE ABOLITIONISTS
White
abolitionists
19TH CENTURY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
U.S.
newspapers
1848-1860
South
Carolina
newspapers 1861-1862
South
Carolina
newspapers 1863
South
Carolina
newspapers 1864
South
Carolina
and U.S. newspapers 1865-1895
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
19th
Century
Corporal Punishment
THE SCHOONER WANDERER CASE
The Schooner Wanderer
Case
SEMINOLE NEGROES
Forgotten
Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in
U.S. History
(Video, 9:19 min.)
Seminole
- The Unconquered (Video, 49:09 min.)
Late
from
the Army, New-York Spectator, March 22, 1838
General
Jesup’s
Campaigns, New-York Spectator, (New York, NY)
August
2, 1838
General
Jesup’s
Report, The Floridian (Tallahassee, FL), August
25,
1838
Extracts
from
Jay’s "View of the Action of the Federal Government in
Behalf of Slavery"
Origin of the Florida War, The Emancipator, (New
York, NY) December
12, 1839; pg. 132
Governmental
Slavery, Vermont Chronicle (Bellows Falls, VT),
February 1,
1843; pg. 18
Col.
Hitch
Recommends the Seminole Indian Negroes Be Returned to
Florida,
The
Galveston Daily News (Houston, TX), September 1, 1875
The
Seminole
Negroes, Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR),
September
7, 1875
Mustered
out
of the Service, St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St.
Louis, MO),
October 10, 1884; pg. 4
Territorial
News, Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah, OK),
February 20, 1897
SLAVE ADVERTISEMENTS
Slave
advertisements
1762-1864
SLAVE AUCTIONS
Slave auctions
SLAVERY ADVOCATES
Senator
John
C. Calhoun Sees Slavery as a Positive Good (1837)
Essay
on
the Treatment and Management of Slaves (1852)
Slavery
the
Strongest Bond of Union, Newark Daily Advertiser,
Nov. 12,
1856, 2
SLAVE BADGES
Slave
badges
SLAVES WHO BECAME SLAVE OWNERS
Anna
Kingsley
Plantation, Florida
William
"April"
Ellison: A Black Entrepreneur and Slave Owner in Sumter, S.C.
(1790-1861)
FREE BLACK SLAVE OWNERS
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in
the
United States in 1830 (The Journal of Negro History,
Jan. 1924)
NATIVE AMERICAN SLAVE OWNERS
Black
Slaves,
Red Masters (Video)
SLAVE PUNISHMENT
Slave
Punishment
THE SLAVE TRADE
Slave
Catchers
in Africa
Slave
Ships
Slaves
Processing
Sugar
SLAVE STEALERS
Zebulon
Rhoads
Suspected of Negro Stealing, Maryland Gazette
(Annapolis),
Feb. 25, 1762, 3
Two
hundred
dollar reward for arreting Negro stealer, Carolina
Gazette
(Charleston, SC), March 16, 1810, 4
Execution,
for
Horse and Negro Stealing, Farmer's Repository
(Charles Town,
WV), April 2, 1813, 4
Negro
Stealing,
Boston
Recorder, April 2, 1829, 56
Law
vs.
Lynch Law,
Liberator, Oct. 27, 1837
Jonathan
Walker
Sentenced and Branded!! (The Liberator, Dec. 6,
1844)
Negro
Stealing,
Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle, Dec. 18, 1844
Capt.
Jonathan
Walker of Harwich, Mass. Cleveland Herald, July
16,
1845
The
Branded
Hand,
Cleveland Herald, Aug. 13, 1845
Isaac
Vanbibber
(12) and A. P. Mainwaring (14) in Louisiana penitentiary for
negro stealing,
Sept. 1850
Suspected
Kidnapper, Belmont Chronicle (St. Clairsville, Ohio), May
14, 1857,
2
End
of
a Slave Stealer,
New York Herald, July 1, 1857
Sentence
of
a Slave Stealer,
New York Herald, June 21, 1858
Female
Negro
Stealing,
Alexandria Gazette, Feb. 16, 1860, 2
Negro
Stealing, Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta, GA),
June 27, 1861,
1
Execution of
Dr. Kinman for Stealing a Negro, Augusta Chronicle,
March 4,
1909, 3
SUGAR PLANTATIONS
Sugar mills of the 19th
century
LATIN AMERICA
The
African
Heritage in Latin America
UNITED STATES
Colonial
Slavery
Southern
Slavery
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE CASE
GUINN
v.
U.S., 238 U.S. 347 (1915)
MILITARY
A
Chronology of African American Military Service
May, Robert E. Invisible
Men:
Blacks and the U.S. Army in the Mexican War (The
Historian)
CLOTHING
10,
500
Pair Negro Shoes (Columbia Telescope and South
Carolina State
Journal, Oct. 26, 1827)
FORT MOSE
Fort
Mose:
Earliest Free African-American Town in the United States
LOTTERY
$30,000
Prize
Drawn by a Slave, Cleveland Leader, April 10,
1857, 2
Monthly
Report
of the Captain of Police, Charleston Mercury, Aug.
19, 1858,
1
MEDICAL TREATMENT
Slave
Hospitals
Chisholm, J. J. "Interesting
Surgical Cases," The Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal, Sept.
10, 1857
Medicine
and
Slavery: An Essay Review (Georgia Historical Quarterly,
Fall 1979)
MORALITY
James Henry Hammond to Harry
Hammond, Feb. 19, 1856
Charles
Colcock
Jones to William States Lee, Aug. 26, 1861, denouncing his
fathering
a mulatto child with a slave servant
Helo, Ari and Peter Onuf. Jefferson,
Morality,
and the Problem of Slavery (The William and Mary
Quarterly,
July 2003)
RELIGION
African
American
Religion
SLAVE REBELLIONS
Slave Rebellions
RUNAWAY SLAVES
Nichols, Jr., Charles A. The
Case
of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (The William and
Mary
Quarterly, Oct. 1951)
Levy,
charged
with assault with intent to kill, The Mississippian,
May 9, 1834
An
Incident, Emancipator and Free American, Sept. 7,
1843
Underground
Operations, Alexandria Gazette, Aug. 5, 1856, 3
How
the
Northern Niggers Serve their Fugitive Brethren, Baton
Rouge Daily
Advocate, April 28, 1857, 2
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Conklin, Julia S. The
Underground
Railroad in Indiana (The Indiana Quarterly Magazine
of History, June 1910)
Russell, Hilary. Underground
Railroad
Activists in Washington, D.C. Washington History,
Vol. 13, No.
2 (Fall/Winter, 2001/2002), pp. 28-49
Waldrip, W. D. A Station of the
Underground
Railroad. The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History,
Vol. 7,
No. 2 (June, 1911), pp. 64-76
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
Driving
Out
Irishmen from South Carolina, Western Reserve
Chronicle(Warren,
OH), Oct. 15, 1856, 2
SLAVE NARRATIVES
Slave
Narratives
from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Slave
Narratives
Full (Video)
Charlie
Hudson,
age 80
Polsky, Milton. The
American
Slave Narrative: Dramatic Resource Material for the Classroom
(Journal of Negro Education, Spring 1976)
PLANTATION OWNERS
Robert
Francis
Withers Allston, Prince George Winyaw, Georgeton, S.C., 1850
Federal
census
Bennet Hilliard Barrow (1811-1854)
Hamilton-Barrow
Family
Papers
Bennet
H.
Barrow diary excerpts 1836-1845
Bennet
H.
Barrow Highland Plantation Rules
Bennet
H.
Barrow: Ante-Bellum Planter of the Felicianas, The
Journal of
Southern History, Nov. 1939
Review
of
Plantation life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana,
1836-1846, as
Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow, The
Journal of
Southern History, Nov. 1943
Review
of
Plantation life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana,
1836-1846, as
Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow, The
Journal of Economic
History, Nov., 1944
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Thomas
Jefferson
and Monticello plantation
Isaac Granger Jefferson, in 1847.
He worked in the Monticello nailery
and also became a blacksmith.
James Henry Hammond (1807-1864)
Jon L. Wakelyn. The
Changing
Loyalties of James Henry Hammond: A Reconsideration. The
South
Carolina Historical Magazine, Jan., 1974
Drew Gilpin Faust. A
Slaveowner in a Free Society: James Henry Hammond on the Grand
Tour, 1836-1837.
The
South Carolina Historical Magazine, July 1980
PLANTATION DRIVERS
Clifton, James M. The
Rice
Driver: His Role in Slave Management (The South
Carolina Historical
Magazine, Oct. 1981)
Hoffman, Charles and Tess. The
Limits
of Paternalism: Driver-Master Relations on a Bryan County
Plantation
(The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 1983)
Van Deburg, William L. The
Slave
Drivers of Arkansas: A New View From the Narratives (The
Arkansas
Historical Quarterly, Autumn 1976)
PLANTATION HOUSE SERVANTS
C. W. Harper, Black
Aristocrats:
Domestic Servants on the Antebellum Plantation (Phylon,
2nd. Quarter, 1985)
PLANTATION OVERSEERS
William
Mathis,
age 28, illiterate, Sumter, S.C., 1850
Wiethoff, William E. Enslaved
Africans'
Rivalry with White Overseers in Plantation Culture" An
Unconventional
Interpretation (The Journal of Black Studies, Jan.
2006)
Scarborough, William Kauffman. The
Southern
Plantation Overseer: A Re-Evaluation (Agricultural
History,
Jan. 1964)
MODERN SLAVERY
Brazilian
government
team frees hundreds of slaves
The
Journey
of a 15-Year-Old From Mali Who Sold Himself Into Bondage
Slavery
is
widespread, reports international crime conference
GENERAL
'African-American'
Becomes
a Term for Debate
Brazil's
Former
Slave Havens Slowly Pressing for Rights
From
Washington
Abolition Of Slavery
The
Heights
of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health
Slave
descendants
to sue Lloyd's
More
Africans
Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery (New York Times,
Feb. 21, 2005)
Preserving
a
heritage (Indianapolis Star, Feb. 21, 2005)
A
Big White Lie (Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 18, 2005)
Michelle
Obama's
family tree has roots in a Carolina slave plantation (Chicago
Tribune, Dec. 1, 2008)