black slaves research resources

Books

1. Historical Overviews
   • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
   • Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
   • Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
2. Firsthand Accounts
   • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
   • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
   • Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
3. Scholarly Analyses
   • Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
   • The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom by Steven Hahn
   • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

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Documentaries and Films

1. Historical Documentaries
   • Eyes on the Prize (focuses on the Civil Rights Movement but addresses slavery’s legacy)
   • Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (PBS documentary)
2. Films Based on True Accounts
   • 12 Years a Slave (2013)
   • Amistad (1997)
   • Beloved (1998, based on Toni Morrison’s novel)

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Online Archives and Databases

1. Primary Sources
   • Library of Congress – Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project
   • Documenting the American South
   • The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Slavery and Abolition
2. Digital Collections
   • Slave Voyages: Database of transatlantic and intra-American slave trade records.
   • The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Offers extensive digital resources on slavery and African American history.

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Podcasts and Educational Platforms

1. Podcasts
   • 1619 Project Podcast (The New York Times)
   • Throughline (NPR episodes on slavery and its legacy)
2. Educational Platforms
   • Facing History and Ourselves
   • The Zinn Education Project: Resources on teaching slavery and Black history.

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Museums and Historical Sites

1. United States
   • The National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, D.C.)
   • Whitney Plantation (Louisiana): Focuses on slavery’s history.
   • The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration (Montgomery, Alabama)
2. International
   • Cape Coast Castle (Ghana): A key site in the transatlantic slave trade.
   • Goree Island (Senegal): UNESCO World Heritage site related to the slave trade.

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The National Archives (UK) – Slavery and the Slave TradeFrance and the Slave Trade – L’Histoire par l’image: French-language resource on France’s role.

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Websites and Research Projects

• The 1619 Project: A major project examining slavery’s central role in U.S. history.
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record: Thousands of historical images related to slavery.