I'll begin and end the lecture with a powerfully eloquent passage from the historian Annette Gordon-Reed: Tuite Jr., The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record: an extraordinary online collection of images relating to all aspects of the Atlantic slave trade:īefore diving into the historical geography and landscape history of slavery, I want to remind us that the horrors of the institution express themselves on scales reaching far above and below the scales of landscape. Burke, eds, Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave: Norton Critical Editions (1853, 2016). Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853) This is available online at multiple locations online, including:įor an especially good print version with supporting documents and commentaries (including critiques of the film version of the book), see Henry Louis Gates Jr. Howard Dodson, Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture (2002). Jonathan Earle, The Routledge Atlas of African American History (2000). James Ciment, Atlas of African-American History (2001). Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery & Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013). Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).Īnnette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008). Parish, Slavery: History and Historians (1989).Įdmund S. Lecture #16: Slave and Free Suggestions for Further Reading:
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