Civil War Books - Slavery

Berlin, Ira.  Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves  (2004)  328 pages.

Stampp, Kenneth.  Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South (1955)

Genovese, Eugene.  Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1976)

Koger, Larry.  Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 (1985)

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988)

Berlin, Ira.  Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)

Faust, Drew Gilpin.   Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (1992)

Morgan, Jennifer.  Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004)

Horton, James Oliver & Lois E.  Slavery and the Making of America (2005) 

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth and Eugene Genovese. The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (2005) 

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth and Eugene Genovese.  Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South (2011)  

Baptist, Edward.  The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2014)

Williams, Heather.  Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (2007)

Williams, Heather. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (2012)

Hodges, Graham Russell.  Root and Branch : African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (1999)

Gross, Ariela.  Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (2006) 


Slavery in Florida

Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida  (1999)  416 pages.

Mahon, John.  History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 (1973, 1985 (revised))  396 pages.

Rivers, Larry.  Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation (2009)  384 pages.

Rivers, Larry.  Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (2013)  264 pages.