Additional Resources
Selected Books, Articles, and Websites
Contents by Freedom Crafter
Henry "Box" Brown
Thomas Day
Frances E. W. Harper
George Moses Horton
Harriet Jacobs
Elizabeth Keckly
William Henry Singleton
Sally Thomas
David Walker
Contents by Subjects Featured in Crafting Freedom Lesson Plans
Slave Narrative
Free Blacks in the Nineteenth Century
Black Civil War Soldiers
Nineteenth-Century Black Writers and Literacy
Nineteenth-Century Black Artists, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs
Resistance to Slavery
Contents by Broad Subjects
The resources listed for the following two broad topics were created or recommended by individuals and institutions that participated in the Crafting Freedom Workshops between 2004-2007 when the instructional material for this project was originally conceived.
Freedom Crafter
Henry "Box" Brown
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself. Ed. John Ernest. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2008.
Brown, Henry Box, and Charles Stearns. Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet
Long and 2 Wide. Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself. With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery.
Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849.
Ruggles, Jeffrey. The Unboxing of Henry Brown. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2003.
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Documenting the American South
Thomas Day
Barfield, Rodney D. Thomas Day Cabinetmaker: An Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of History. Raleigh: Museum of
History Department of Cultural Resources, 1975.
Barfield, Rodney D., and Patricia Phillips Marshall. Thomas Day: African American Furniture Maker. Raleigh: North Carolina
Office of Archives and History, 2005.
Carter, Janie Leigh. John Day: A Founder of the Republic of Liberia and The Southern Baptist Liberian Mission Movement in
the Nineteenth Century. Thesis: Wake Forest University, 1998.
Marshall, Patricia Phillips, and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll. Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Barfield, Rodney D. "Thomas and John Day and the Journey to North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 78, no. 1
(2001).
Marshall, Patricia Phillips. "The Legendary Thomas Day: Debunking the Popular Mythology of an African American
Craftsman." North Carolina Historical Review (January 2001): 32-66.
Paquette, Michael A. "Thomas Day: An Inquiry into Business and Labor Practices in an Antebellum Cabinetshop." Journal of
the North Carolina Association of Historians 6-7 (Fall 1998-1999).
Prown, Jonathan. "The Furniture of Thomas Day: A Reevaluation." Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material
Culture 33, no. 4 (Winter 1998).
Rogers, Patricia Dane. "Carved in History. Thomas Day: A Success in an Unlikely Time and Place." The Washington Post.
February 13, 1997, Home Section.
Sneed, Laurel, and Christine Westfall. Uncovering the Hidden History of Thomas Day: Findings and Methodology. Research
Triangle Park, NC: Thomas Day Education Project, 1995. Contact us for information on ordering this publication.
Sneed, Laurel C., and Patricia Dane Rogers. The Hidden History of Thomas Day. Research Triangle Park, NC: Apprend
Foundation, 2009. Contact us for information on ordering this publication.
Thomas Day Education Project, Apprend Foundation
Thomas Day, North Carolina Digital History, Antebellum North Carolina, Learn NC
Thomas Day, Biographical Sketch, rootsweb, an Ancestry.com community
The Legacy of Thomas Day, Indy Week
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911. Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1994.
Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1987. [See Chapter 4 on Harper's fiction.]
Foster, Frances Smith. A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances E. W. Harper Reader. New York: Feminist Press, 1990.
Foster, Frances Smith. Written By Herself: Literary Production of Early African American Women Writers, 1746-1892.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. [See Chapter 8 on Harper's Reconstruction poetry.]
Harper, Frances E. W., and Maryemma Graham, ed. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988.
Harper, Frances E. W. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted. Ed. Hazel V. Carby. Boston: Beacon, 1987.
Rutkowski, Alice. "Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of
Reconstruction." Legacy 25 (2008): 83-104.
"Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Documenting the American South
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Brief Biography, Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History
George Moses Horton
Horton, George Moses. The Poetical Works of George M. Horton: The Colored Bard of North
Carolina: To Which is Prefixed
the Life of the Author, Written by Himself. 1845. Reprint, Chapel Hill: Academic Affairs Library, University of North
Carolina, 1997.
Horton, George Moses. The Hope of Liberty, Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces. 1829. Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, 2004.
Horton, George Moses, and Will H. Banks. Naked Genius. 1865. Reprint, Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1982.
Horton, George Moses. Poems By a Slave. 1837. Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries,
2006.
Sherman, Joan R. The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry. Chapel
Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1997.
Sherman, Joan R. Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Walser, Richard. The Black Poet; Being the Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, a North
Carolina Slave. New York:
Philosophical Library, 1966. [A flawed study, but still the most complete biography available.]
Biography of George Moses Horton, Documenting the American South
"The Hope of Liberty. Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces" by George Moses Horton, Documenting the American South
"On Liberty and Slavery" by George Moses Horton, Poets' Corner
"The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, to Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself", Documenting the American South
"George Moses Horton, Myself" by George Moses Horton, Poets' Corner
Harriet Jacobs
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Ed. Frances Smith Foster and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: W. W. Norton
& Co., 2001.
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Ed. Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 2000.
Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs: A Life. Cambridge: Basic Civitas Books, 2004.
Zafar, Rafia, and Deborah Garfield. Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, Documenting the American South
Summary of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, Documenting the American South
Harriet Jacobs, People and Events, Africans in America, PBS
Harriet A. Jacobs, Fugitive Slave, Activist Abolitionist, Author, Edenton-Chowan County Tourism Development Authority
Elizabeth Keckly
Andrews, William L. "The Changing Moral Discourse of Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Autobiography:
Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley." De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography.
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992, pp. 225-241.
Fleischner, Jennifer. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former
Slave. New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Ed. William L. Andrews.
New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. Cambridge: Candlewick Press,
2008.
Rinaldi, Ann. An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley. Orlando: Harcourt Books, 2007.
Criniti, Steve. "Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years a Fairy Godmother: Dressmaking as Self-Making in Elizabeth Keckley's
Autobiography." ATQ 22, no. 1 (March 2008): 309-326.
"Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and
Four Years in the White House" by Elizabeth Keckley, Documenting the American South
"'I Am Well Aware that I Have Invited Criticism:' Elizabeth Keckley's Voice Endures", Documenting the American South
William Henry Singleton
Singleton, William Henry. Recollections of My Slavery Days. Ed. Katherine Mellen Charron and David S. Cecelski. Raleigh:
North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1999.
Vlock, Laurel, and Joel A. Levitch. Contraband of War: William Henry Singleton. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970.
"Recollections of My Slavery Days" by William Henry Singleton, Documenting the American South
Sally Thomas
Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006.
David Walker
Aptheker, Herbert, and David Walker. "One Continual Cry:" David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World,
1829-1830, Its Setting & Its Meaning, Together with the Full Text of the Third, and Last, Edition of the Appeal. New York:
Published for A. I. M. S. by Humanities Press, 1965.
Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave
Resistance. University
Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Peters, James S. The Spirit of David Walker, the Obscure Hero. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
Walker, David. Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Ed. Peter P. Hinks. University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2000.
Walker, David, and Sean Wilentz. David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens
of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. New York: Hill and Wang,
1995.
David Walker, Biography, Documenting the American South
"Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America Documenting the American South" by David Walker, Documenting the American South
Summary of David Walker's "Appeal", Documenting the American South
Subjects Featured in Crafting Freedom Lesson Plans
Slave Narratives
Andrews, William L., and Henry Louis Gates. Slave Narratives. New York: Library of America, 2000.
Andrews, William L., ed. North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane,
Moses Grandy, and
Thomas H. Jones. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself. Ed. John Ernest.
Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1851.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Ed. William L. Andrews and William McFeely. New York: W.
W. Norton, 1997.
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Ed. Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2000.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Ed. William L. Andrews.
New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
Singleton, William Henry. Recollections of My Slavery Days. Ed. Katherine Mellen Charron and David S. Cecelski. Raleigh:
North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1999.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, The Library of Congress
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Documenting the American South
An Introduction to the Slave Narrative by William L. Andrews, Documenting the American South
North American Slave Narratives Collection, Documenting the American South
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, Documenting the American South
Summary of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, Documenting the American South
"Recollections of My Slavery Days" by William Henry Singleton, Documenting the American South
"The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, to Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself", Documenting the American South
"Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" by Elizabeth Keckley, Documenting the American South
Free Blacks in the Nineteenth Century
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: The New Press, 1974, 2007.
Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790's Through the Civil
War. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
Franklin, John Hope. The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina: From the Colonial Period to About
1820. 2 vols. Baltimore: Clearfield Press, 2005.
Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks,
1700-1806. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Johnson, Michael, and James L. Roark. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. New York: W. W. Norton &
Co., 1986.
Koger, Larry. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. South Carolina: University of South
Carolina Press, 1995.
Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 1984.
Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1990.
Koger, Larry. "Black Masters: The Misunderstood Slaveowners." Southern Quarterly (Winter 2006).
Free Black Registry, The Valley of the Shadow, University of Virginia Library
Free Black Patriots, Africans in America, PBS
Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period, African American Odyssey, Library of Congress
Black Civil War Soldiers
McPherson, James. Marching Toward Freedom: Blacks in the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York:
Facts on File, 1994.
Singleton, William Henry. Recollections of My Slavery Days. Ed. Katherine Mellen Charron and David S. Cecelski. Raleigh:
North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1999.
Vlock, Laurel, and Joel A. Levitch. Contraband of War: William Henry Singleton. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970.
African-American Soldiers During the Civil War, The Learning Page, Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877, The Library of Congress
History of African Americans in the Civil War, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service
Colored Troops Pictures, American Civil War
The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph, Retouching History, University of Virginia
54th Massachusetts, American Originals, National Archives and Records Administration
54th Massachusetts Company B Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 54th Massachusetts.org
54th Massachusetts Regiment, America's Civil War, History Net
"Recollections of My Slavery Days" by William Henry Singleton, Documenting the American South
Nineteenth-Century Black Writers and Literacy
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911. Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1994.
Harper, Frances E. W., and Maryemma Graham, ed. Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper.
Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988.
Harper, Frances E. W. Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects. 1857. Reprint, Michigan: Rhistoric Publications, 1969.
Harper, Frances E. W. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted. Boston: James H. Earle, 1892.
Horton, George Moses. The Poetical Works of George M. Horton: The Colored Bard of North
Carolina: To Which is Prefixed
the Life of the Author, Written by Himself. 1845. Reprint, Chapel Hill: Academic Affairs Library, University of North
Carolina, 1997.
Horton, George Moses. The Hope of Liberty, Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces. 1829. Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, 2004.
Horton, George Moses, and Will H. Banks. Naked Genius. 1865. Reprint, Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1982.
Horton, George Moses. Poems By a Slave. 1837. Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries,
2006.
Logan, Shirley Wilson. Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black
America. Carbondale,
IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2002.
Sherman, Joan R. The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1997.
Sherman, Joan R. Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Williams, Heather. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.
Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2005.
Zafar, Rafia. We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1997.
"Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Documenting the American South
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Brief Biography, Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History
Biography of George Moses Horton, Documenting the American South
"The Hope of Liberty, Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces" by George Moses Horton, Documenting the American South
"On Liberty and Slavery" by George Moses Horton, Poets' Corner
"The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, to Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself", Documenting the American South
"George Moses Horton, Myself" by George Moses Horton, Poets' Corner
Nineteenth-Century Black Artists, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs
Barfield, Rodney D. Thomas Day Cabinetmaker: An Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum
of History. Raleigh: Museum of
History Department of Cultural Resources, 1975.
Barfield, Rodney D., and Patricia Phillips Marshall. Thomas Day: African American Furniture Maker. Raleigh: North Carolina
Office of Archives and History, 2005.
Bivins, John, Jr. The Furniture of Coastal North Carolina 1700-1820. Winston-Salem: The Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts, 1988.
Conway, Cecelia. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1995.
Fleischner, Jennifer. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former
Slave. New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Ed. William L. Andrews.
New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
Marshall, Patricia Phillips, and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll. Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. Cambridge: Candlewick Press,
2008.
Prown, Jonathan, and Randall L. Hurst. Southern Furniture. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997.
Vlach, John Michael. By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in African-American Folklife. Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 1991.
Vlach, John Michael. The Afro-American Tradition in the Decorative Arts. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1993.
Walker, Juliet E. K. The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. New York: MacMillan
Library Reference, 1998.
Bashir, Catherine W. "Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review LXI (October 1984):
423-61.
Criniti, Steve. "Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years a Fairy Godmother: Dressmaking as Self-Making in Elizabeth Keckly's
Autobiography." ATQ 22 , no. 1 (March 2008): 309-326.
Holland, Juanita M., ed. "19th Century African American Craft Arts of the South." The International Review of African
American Art 12, no. 3. Hampton: Hampton University Museum, 1995.
Landsmark, Theodore C. "Comments on African American Contributions to American Material Life." Winterthur Portfolio 33
(Winter 1998): 261-282.
Marshall, Patricia Phillips. "The Legendary Thomas Day: Debunking the Popular Mythology of an African American
Craftsman." North Carolina Historical Review (January 2001): 32-66.
Paquette, Michael A. "Thomas Day: An Inquiry into Business and Labor Practices in an Antebellum Cabinetshop." Journal of
the North Carolina Association of Historians 6-7 (Fall 1998-1999).
Prown, Jonathan. "The Furniture of Thomas Day: A Reevaluation." Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material
Culture 33, no. 4 (Winter 1998).
Prown, Jonathan. "A Cultural Analysis of Furniture-making in Petersburg, Virginia, 1760-1820." Journal of Early Southern
Decorative Arts XVIII, no. 1 (May 1992): 1-173.
Rogers, Patricia Dane. "Carved in History. Thomas Day: A Success in an Unlikely Time and Place." The Washington Post.
February 13, 1997, Home Section.
Wood, Peter H. "'It Was a Negro Taught Them': A New Look at African Labor in Early South Carolina." Journal of Asian and
African Studies IX (October 1974): 160-79.
Wood, Peter H. "Black Builders of the Early South." Southern Exposure Magazine VIII, no. 1. (Spring 1990): 3-8.
Thomas Day, North Carolina Digital History, Antebellum North Carolina, Learn NC
Thomas Day, Biographical Sketch, rootsweb, an Ancestry.com community
The Legacy of Thomas Day, Indy Week
"Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and
Four Years in the White House" by Elizabeth Keckley, Documenting the American South
"'I Am Well Aware that I Have Invited Criticism:' Elizabeth Keckley's Voice Endures", Documenting the American South
Resistance to Slavery
Berry, Mary Frances. Black Resistance/White Law. New York: The Penguin Group, 1994.
Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill
and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999.
Genovese, Eugene D. From Rebellion to Revolution. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Grant, Joanne. Black Protest. History, Documents, and Analyses. 1619 to the Present. Second Edition. New York: Random
House, 1991.
Hinks, Peter P. To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave
Resistance. University
Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick L. McKissack. Rebels Against Slavery. New York: Scholastic Press, 1996.
Moore, Cathy. The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2002.
Mullin, Gerald W. Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. New York: Oxford University Press,
1972.
Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven and London: Yale University Press,
1990.
Parker, Freddie L. Stealing a Little Freedom: Advertisements for Runaways in N.C. 1791-1840. New York and London:
Garland Publishing, 1994.
Peters, James S. The Spirit of David Walker, the Obscure Hero. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
Walker, David, and Sean Wilentz. David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens
of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. New York: Hill and Wang,
1995.
Walker, David, and Peter P. Hinks. David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. 1829. Reprint, University
Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Other Abolitionists, Events and People, Africans in America, PBS
Runaway Slave Ads Baltimore County, Maryland 1842-1863, Afrigeneas
Explore [Runaway Slave] Advertisements, The Geography of Slavery, University of Virginia
Runaway Notices, Africans in America, PBS
Black Southerners in the Old South, The Slave Community, Slave Voices, Duke University
The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery, Slave Resistance and Revolts, 1600-1860, Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
The African-American Experience in Ohio, Runaway Slave Ad for [a slave named] Emily, The Ohio Historical Society
The African-American Experience in Ohio, Runaway Slave Ad for [a slave named] Tom, The Ohio Historical Society
Underground Railroad: History of Slavery, Pictures, Information, National Geographic
David Walker, Biography, Documenting the American South
"Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America Documenting the American South" by David Walker, Documenting the American South
Summary of David Walker's "Appeal", Documenting the American South
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Documenting the American South
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, Documenting the American South
Summary of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, Documenting the American South
Harriet Jacobs, People and Events, Africans in America, PBS
Harriet A. Jacobs, Fugitive Slave, Activist Abolitionist, Author, Edenton-Chowan County Tourism Development Authority
"Recollections of My Slavery Days" by William Henry Singleton, Documenting the American South
Broad Subjects
The African American Experience
Carter, Janie Leigh. John Day: A Founder of the Republic of Liberia and The Southern Baptist Liberian Mission Movement in
the Nineteenth Century. Thesis: Wake Forest University, 1998.
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: The New Press, 1975.
Conway, Cecelia. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1995.
Crowe, Jeffrey, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley. A History of African Americans in North Carolina. Revised edition. Raleigh:
Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2002.
Dennis, Denise. Black History for Beginners. New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1995.
DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Vintage Books, The Library of America, 1990.
Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790's through the Civil
War. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
Finkenbine, Roy. Sources of the African-American Past: Primary Sources in American History. New York: Longman, 1997.
Franklin, John Hope. The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,
1943.
Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2000.
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in American History: From Colonial Times through the 19th Century. Four volumes. New
York: Carlson Press, 1993.
Hine, Darlene Clark, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harold. The African American Odyssey. Vol. 1. New York: Prentice Hall,
2000.
Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks,
1700-1806. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Jacobs, Sylvia M., ed. Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Katz, William Loren. Black Indians, a Hidden Heritage. New York: Atheneum, 1986.
Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 1984.
Murray, Albert. The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy. New York: De Capo Press,
1970.
Palmer, Colin A. Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1994.
Prown, Jonathan, and Randall L. Hurst. Southern Furniture. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997.
Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Vlach, John Michael. The Afro-American Tradition in the Decorative Arts. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Vlach, John Michael. By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia
Press, 1991.
Durham, Michael S. "I Am Going to Be Thomas Day." American Legacy (Winter 1998): 48-53.
Flowers, Elizabeth H. "'A Man, A Christian . . . and a Gentleman?' John Day, Southern Baptists, and the Nineteenth-Century
Mission to Liberia." Baptist History & Heritage 43, no. 2 (2008).
Holland, Juanita M., ed. "19th Century African American Craft Arts of the South." The International Review of African
American Art 12, no. 3. Hampton: Hampton University Museum, 1995.
Landsmark, Theodore C. "Comments on African American Contributions to American Material Life." Winterthur Portfolio 33
(Winter 1998): 261-282.
Marshall, Patricia Phillips. "The Legendary Thomas Day: Debunking the Popular Mythology of an African American
Craftsman." North Carolina Historical Review (January 2001): 32-66.
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