VI. 2. A. 1. Further Reading, Books, Non-Fiction

• Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad. NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1987.
  A collection of narratives pertaining to the workings of the Underground Railroad.

• Boles, John B. Black Southerners. Lexington, KT: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

• Breen, T.H. and Stephan Innes. Myne Owne Ground. NY: Oxford University Press, 1980.

• Conneau, Capt. Theophilus. A Slaver's Logbook, or 20 Years' Residence in Africa. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1976.
  An account from the slaver's point-of-view, offering insight into what moved men to sell their fellow humans into slavery. Capt. Canot (as is the more common spelling) was a well-known slaver in the early- to mid- 19th century.

• Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies In the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1949.

• Duignan, Peter, and Clarence Clendenen. The United States And the African Slave Trade 1619-1862. The Hoover Institution, 1963.
  A study of the authors intended to "...show that the slave trade was an important economic and cultural factor in the formative days of the United States..." and in which they "...interpret the men and events of the slave trade somewhat differently than most authors..."

• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices. Oxford, CT: Oxford University Press, 1993.

• Foner, Philip S. History of Black Americans: Form Africa to the Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.

• Long, Rev. John Dixon. Pictures of Slavery. NY: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
  Account of situations present in times of slavery. Includes complete definitions of terms used to describe people and/or ideas of their time; narratives, and personal accounts.

• Nichols, Charles H. Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves' Account of their Bondage and Freedom. Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1963.
  Slave narratives from the colonial era.

• Plimme, Charlotte and Dennis. Slavery: The Anglo-American Involvement. NY: Barnes and Noble Books, 1973.
  Excellent reference book, covering the years 1562 to 1865. Includes events, descriptions, narratives, and numerous illustrations.

• Wright, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. NY: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.

• Anonymous. Africans Became Afro-Americans: Selected Articles on Slavery in the American Colonies. NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988.

VI. 2. A. 2. Further Reading, Books, Fiction

• Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1979.

• Calverton, V. F. Anthology of American Negro Literature. NY: The Modern Library Publishers, 1929.
  A collection of works throughout African American history. Includes fiction, drama, poetry, songs, essays, and autobiographies by prominent African American writers.

• Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

• Gonzales, Ambrose Elliot. The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1991.

• Harper, Michael S. and Robert B. Stepo. Chant of Saints: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art, and Scholarship. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
  A collection of poems, short literature, essays, paintings, and photographs by African Americans.

• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. NY: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1987.

• Shockley, Ann Allen. Afro-American Women Writers 1746-1933: An Anthologogy and Critical Guide. NY: Meridian Books. 1989.
  A collection of works by black women writers, including a short biographical sketch of each, appearing before her work.

• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. 1969.

VI. 2. B. Further Reading, Internet Addresses

• African-American Mosaic
• The Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic

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