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African American History field reading list

Herbert Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

Allan Kulikoff,, Tobacco and Slaves

Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African

John Hebron Moore, Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest

Alan Watson, Slave Law in the Americas

Philip D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census

Joseph Inikori and Stanley Engerman, The Atlantic Slave Trade

Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History

Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power

Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class 1624-1713

Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh, The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Atlantic World

Jon Sensbach, Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World

David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone

Daniel Littlefield, Rice and Slaves in Colonial South Carolina

Lorena Walsh, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community

Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860

Michael Conniff and Thomas Davis, Africans in the Americas

Wilma A. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South

Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution, 3rd ed,

Jack D. Forbes, Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race

Tiya Miles, The Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade

Frederic Bancroft, Slave Trading in the Old South

Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul

Leslie M. Alexander, African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861  

Loren Schweninger, Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915

Richard Newman, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts

Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution

John Blassingame, The Slave Community

Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

Peter Kolchin, American Slavery 1619 - 1877

Ira Berlin, et al., Slaves No More

Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long

Eric Foner, Reconstruction

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction

Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet

Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Leon Litwack, Trouble In Mind

Eric Arnesen, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans

Crystal Feimster, Women and the Politics of Race and Lynching  

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920

Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present

Debra Gray White, Ar’n’t I a woman?

Kevin K. Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century 

David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography

Robert J. Norrell, Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington

James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro

J. Todd Moye, Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

James Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy

John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom

Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

Danielle L. McGuire, The Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance, A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Peniel Joseph, Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

Thomas C. Holt, The Problem of Race in the 21st Century

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom. 8th edition

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