VI. 1. Sources

• Allen, William F., Charlest Ware, and Lucy Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. NY: Peter Smith, 1951.

• Brawley, Benjamin. A Short History of the American Negro, 9th Edition. NY: The MacMillan Co., 1946.
  The main facts and background of slavery.

• Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison. NY: W. W. Norton, 1995.

• Dennis, R. Ethel. The Black People of America. NY: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1970.

• Dunbar, Paul Laurence. When Malindy Sings. NY: Dodd Mead and Co., 1903.

• Editors of Ebony. Ebony-- A Pictorial History of Black America, vol. 1. Chicago, IL: Johnson Publishing Co, Inc., 1971.

• Fishel, Leslie H. and Benjamin Quarles. The Negro American: A Documentary History. Scott Foresman and Co., 1967.

• Ferling, John E. The First of Men: A Life of George Washington. Knoxville,TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 1988.

• Gougeon, Len, and Joel Myerson, eds. Emerson's Antislavery Writings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.

• Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co., 1980.

• Hughes, Langston, Melton Meltzer, and Eric C. Lincoln. A Pictoral History of Black Americans. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983. Fifth Edition.

• Lester, Julius. To Be A Slave. NY: Dial Press, Inc., 1968. Nineteenth century slave narratives, short, precise descriptions of slave life.

• Mannix, Daniel P. and Cowley. Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518-1865. New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
  A history of the slave trade and slavery in the U.S., including "...[trying] to tell where Negroes came from, how they were enslaved in Africa, how they were purchased by sea captains, how they were packed into the hold..., and how the survivors were sold..."

• McCrum, Robert, William Grant, and Robert MacNeil. The Story Of English. NY: Elisabeth Sifton, Viking Press, 1986.

• Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. NY: Free Press, 1977.

• Nell, William C. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. NY: Arno Press, 1968.

• Randall, Willard Stern. Thomas Jefferson: A Life. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1993.

• Sealts, Merton M. Emerson on the Scholar. Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 1992.

• Sloan, Irving J. The American Negro: A Chronology and Fact Book, Second Edition. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1968.
  Chronological fact book of American Negro history.

• Spears, John R. The American Slave Trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth, and Suppression. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1970 (original copyright 1900 Charles Scribner's Sons).
  A general history of the slave trade and slavery in the U.S.

• Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of Brittish Slavery. Washington, D.C.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
  Includes chapters on the private lives of slaves and chapters dealing with specific groups of slaves.

• Wright, Donald R. African Americans In the Colonial Era. IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1990.
  Addresses the topic of the Atlantic Slave Trade in great detail. The main topics covered are the origins of slavery and its development, the beginnings of the African American culture, and the changes during the Revolutionary War.

• Wheatley, Phillis. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Ed. Julian D. Mason, Jr. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966.

• Wheatley, Phillis. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Ed. John C. Shields New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

• Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. NY: W. W. Norton, 1970.

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