For Further Reading
Government Documents
Magna Carta
U.S. Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States
Bill of Rights
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Books on Redress and Reconciliation
Araujo, Ana Lucia. Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Bazelon, Lara. Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
Brennan, Fernne. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Routledge, 2012.
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice Denied. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982.
Haley, James. Reparations for American Slavery. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Greenhaven Press, 2003.
Horwitz, David. Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery. 2001.
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Maki, Mitchell T., Harry H. L. Kitano, & S. Megan Berthold. Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Martin, Michael T., and Marilyn Yaquinto, eds. Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
Robinson, Randall. The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Thompson, Janna. Should Current Generations Make Reparation for Slavery? Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2018.
Winbush, Raymond. Belinda’s Petition: A Concise History of Reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 2009.
Winbush, Raymond. Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations. HarperCollins, 2003.
Slavery, Slave Narratives, Anti-Slavery, Abolition, Civil Rights Movement
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. New York: The Citadel Press, 1951.
———. American Negro Slave Revolts.
———. Essays in the History of the American Negro.
———. The Negro People in America.
———. To Be Free.
Basker, James G., ed. American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation. Library of America, 2012.
Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, and Leslie Rowland, eds. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: Free Press, 1992.
Berlin, Ira and Ronald Hoffman, eds. Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution. University Press of Virginia, 1983.
Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowlands, eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (5 vols.). Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Birnbaum, Jonathan, and Clarence Taylor. Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Blackett, R. J. M. Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Blake, William O. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Columbus, Ohio: J. & H. Miller, 1857.
Botkin, B. A., ed. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Bureau of the Census. Population of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864.
Cumbler, John T. From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, 2006.
Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1936.
Drescher, Seymour, and Stanley Engerman, eds. A Historical Guide to World Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Dumond, Dwight Lowell. Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1939, 1959.
———. A Bibliography of Anti-Slavery in America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
———. Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Federal Writers' Project. These Are Our Lives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
Fehrenbacher, Don E. Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Fogel, Robert W. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
Fogel, Robert William and Engerman, Stanley L. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton, 1974
Foner, Eric. Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
———. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 2005.
———. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1995.
———. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Garraty, John A., and Jerome L. Sternstein, eds. Encyclopedia of American Biography, 2d ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. African American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Genovese, Eugene D. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South, 1967.
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Georgia Narratives. Vol. 4, pts. 2 and 4. Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Georgia, 1937.
Goodman, Paul. Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.
Gottheimer, Josh. Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003.
Hammond, John Craig, & Matthew Mason, eds. Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Harding, Vincent. There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Harrold, Stanley C. American Abolitionists. New York: Longman Press, 2001.
Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Hornsby, Jr., Alton, ed. Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and the Making of America, 2005.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen. Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
Johnson, Charles, Patricia Smith, and the WGBH Series Research Team. Africans in America: America’s Journey through Slavery. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Johnson, Whittington B. Black Savannah, 1788-1864. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
Library of Congress Project: WPA. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1941. [Full text available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html] See also Georgia Narratives.
Lincoln, C. Eric, and Milton Meltzer. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer, 3rd ed. New York: Crown Publishers, 1969. (Originally published in 1956.)
Litwack, Leon F., Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Long, E. B., with Barbara Long. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971.
McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Mack, Angela D., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds. Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Mason, Matthew. Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic, 2006.
McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. 1992.
Miers, Earl Schenck, editor-in-chief, C. Percy Powell, vol. ed., Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology (Vol. III), Washington: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960.
Miller, Randall M., and John D. Smith, Eds., Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Mitchell, Thomas G. Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
Moore, Wilbert Ellis. American Negro Slavery and Abolition: A Sociological Study. Ayer Publishing, 1980.
Nichols, George Ward. The Story of the Great March: From the Diary of a Staff Officer. New York: Harper & Bros., 1865. [Full text available at: http://www.armyofgeorgia.com/id26.html]
Pease, William H., & Pease, Jane H. Bound With Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Anti-Slavery Movement. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
———. They Who Would Be Free: Blacks’ Search for Freedom, 1830-1861. New York: Atheneum, 1974.
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Rael, Patrick. Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Rawick, George P. ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Vols. 12 and 13, Georgia Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1972-1978.
Rawley, James A. The Transatlantic Slave Trade. New York: Norton, 1981.
Ripley, C. Peter, ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers (5 Vols.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007.
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007.
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
Schermerhorn, Calvin. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
Schneider, Dorothy, & Carl J. Schneider. An Eyewitness History: Slavery in America, From Colonial Times to the Civil War. Facts On File, 2000.
Segal, Ronald. The Black Diaspora. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Spradling, Mary Mace. In Black and White: Afro-Americans in print: A Guide to Afro-Americans who have Made Contributions to the United States of America from 1619-1969. Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Library System, 1971.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853.
Ward, Andrew. The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Weld, Theodore Dwight. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.
Yee, Shirley, J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in American Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.