African Immigration to Colonial America
For general background on the history of the slave trade
and the evolution of African American slave societies
in the Old South, try these books, beginning with two
excellent studies by Professor Berlin:
Berlin, Ira. Generations Of Captivity: A History
of African-American
Slaves (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2003).
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries
of Slavery
in North America (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 1998).
Gomez, Michael Angelo. Exchanging Our Country Marks:
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial
and Antebellum South (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, c1998).
Heuman, Gad, and James Walvin. The Slavery Reader
(New York: Routledge, 2003).
Littlefield, Daniel. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and
the Slave Trade in
Colonial South Carolina (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, c1981).
Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture
in the
Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Chapel
Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia,
by the University of North Carolina Press, c1998).
Websites
The Gilder Lehrman Institute website provides teacher
resources on many eras of American history, including
a section on slavery:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module7/index.html
PBS's "Slavery in America" site continues to
provide valuable materials for the study of the slave
trade and other aspects of antebellum African American
history:
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/home.htm
Of particular interest is the lesson plan on "The
Trans-Atlantic Passage" by Dorothy L.W. Dobson:
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_atlantic.htm
PBS's "Africans in America" website provides
excellent teacher resources:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
A search for "slave trade" on the American Memory
website at the Library of Congress will produce plenty
of hits, but be warned that most of these are for post-1800
publications:
