Slavery of Africans in the Americas: Resistance to Enslavement
Yolanda Jones
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Allen, William Francis, Garrison, Lucy McKim, Ware, Charles Pickard, Slave Songs of the United States. Massachusetts: Applewood Books, 1867. This is a collection of both secular and spiritual slave songs.
Baker, Houston A. Jr., Long Black Songs, Essays in Black American Literature. Charlotte: UP of Virginia, 1972. This book contains music, folklore and literature of Black American culture.
Bennett, Lerone Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Chicago:1982. This is a history of Black America.
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Oxford University Press, 1979. This is an examination of life as a slave on a plantation. This book also examines the role and various personalities of slaves in the antebellum South.
Cheek, William F. Black Resistance Before the Civil War. Beverly Hills: Glencoe, 1970. This is a collection of essays and documents examining various aspects of Black resistance prior to the Civil War.
Finkelman, Paul, ed. “Rebellions, Resistance, and Runaways Within the Slave South.” Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 13. New York: Garland, 1989. This is a collection of essays and articles dealing with American slave resistance.
Katz, William Loren. Breaking the Chains, African-American Slave Resistance. New York: Atheneum, 1990.
Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness, Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford UP, 1977. This is a study of orally transmitted culture of African-Americans in the United States from the antebellum period to the end of the 1940’s.
Mullin, Michael. Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992. This is an examination of slavery and slave resistance in America and the Caribbean.
Paquett, Robert L “Social History Update: Slave Resistance and Social History.” Journal of Social History. Vol. 24, No. 3, Spring 1991 pp.681-5. This is an article examining day-to-day slave resistance.
Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. John Hopkins University Press. 1996 (3rd. edition) This is a examination of fugitive slaves and maroons in the Americas.