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California, a Slave State by Jean Pfaelzer, 2023.
Traders in Men : Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Nicholas Radburn, 2023.
American inheritance : Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 by Edward J. Larson, 2023.
Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History by Kerry Walters, 2022.
African founders : How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer, 2022.
The Counter-Revolution of 1836 : Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism by Gerald Horne, 2022.
Chained to History: slavery and US foreign relations to 1865 by Steven J. Brady, 2022.
Behind the Big House : Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South by Jodi Skipper, 2022.
Juneteenth : The Story Behind the Celebration by Edward T. Cotham, 2021.
The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah-Jones, 2019.
Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America. Edited by Paul Musselwhite, 2019.
Slavery and Emancipation by Rick
Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South by Paul Finkelman, 2003.
Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War by
The History of the Negro Race in America, 1619 - 1880 by George Washington Williams, 1885.
Black Southerners, 1619-1869 by John B. Boles, 1983.
The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown by Tim Hashaw, 2007.
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by Philip D. Curtain, 1969.
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Edited by Sylviane A. Diouf. 2003.
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame by Anne C. Bailey, 2006.
The Sounds of Slavery: discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech by Shane White and Graham White, 2005.
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1886.
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston, 2018.
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 1968. (first published in 1853).
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation by Daina Ramey Berry, 2017.
African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery. Edited by Steven Mintz. 1996.
Rethinking Rufus: sexual violations of enslaved men by Thomas A. Foster, 2019.
Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) by Margaret Walker, forward by Nikki Giovanni 2016.
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia by Nat Turner; edited by Thomas R. Gray. 2011. (originally published in the 1830s).
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (annotations by David W. Blight), 2014. Also available as an ebook.
Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with William Scarborough, professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg. WGBH Educational Foundation. 1998. 1 hr.
Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade. Directed by Michel Moreau, The Filmaker's Library, 1996. 55 min.
A Son of Africa: Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. CA Newsreel, 1996, 29 min.
Slavery: America's Main Historical Event: a discussion with social historian Anne C. Bailey. 2005. 26 min.
The Black Atlantic: 1500 - 1800. WNET NY. Narrated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 57 min.
The Age of Slavery: 1800 - 1860. WNET NY. Narrated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2013. 57 min.
Roots: A History Revealed. A&E Television. 2016. 43 min.
Supreme Court Decisions that Changed the Nation: The Dred Scott Decision. Guidance Assoc. 1986. 16 min.
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship - Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period. Library of Congress Exhibition.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. Library of Congress.
David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles to the Colored People of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. 1830.
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship. Slavery -- A Peculiar Institution. Library of Congress Exhibition.
The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases at Emory University. Explore the Origins and Forced Relocations of Enslaved Africans Across the Atlantic World.