ARCHIVAL AND MICROFILM COLLECTIONS
Listed here are the collections most often cited. Other archival collections appear in the notes as appropriate.
BGFP-WLCL |
Burwell-Guy Family Papers, 1820–1873, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
BS |
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1938. Digital Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html |
GLIAH |
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York |
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The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493–1859 |
HALSC-UNO |
Historical Archives of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans |
NARA |
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. |
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Amnesty Papers: Case Files of Applications From Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons, 1865–1867. NARA Microfilm Publication M1003, 73 rolls. Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s–1917, Record Group 94. |
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Records of the United States Circuit Court, Chancery Dockets and Rule Case Files, Record Group 21 |
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Petitions: “Petitions Filed Under the Act of July 12, 1862,” Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862–1863. NARA Microfilm Publication M520, 6 rolls. Records of the United States General Accounting Office, Record Group 217. |
NCDAH |
North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh |
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General Assembly, Session Records |
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Records of the County Court |
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Records of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
New Orleans Notarial Archives, New Orleans, Louisiana |
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NOPL |
New Orleans Public Library |
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Louisiana Research Collection |
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Records of the Parish Court, Emancipation Petitions, 1813–1843 |
RASP |
Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War, ed. Kenneth M. Stampp, microfilm collection |
RSP-2 |
Race and Slavery Petitions Project: Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks Series 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1777–1867, ed. Loren Schweninger, microfilm collection |
SCDAH |
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia |
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Records of the Equity Court |
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Records of the General Assembly |
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Resolutions of the General Assembly |
TCP-EGSL |
Tucker-Coleman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia |
TSLA |
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville |
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Records of the Chancery Court |
NEWSPAPERS
Augusta Chronicle
Augusta Chronicle and Georgia Advertiser
Charleston Courier
Charleston Mercury
Chicago Tribune
City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Charleston, S.C.; CGCDA)
Daily Crescent (New Orleans, La.)
Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)
Daily Morning News (Savannah, Ga.)
Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.)
Daily Picayune (New Orleans, La.)
Daily South Carolinian
DeBow’s Review
Emancipator
Enquirer
Farmer and Planter
Farmers’ Register
Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser
Federal Intelligencer, and Baltimore Daily Gazette
Frederick Douglass’ Paper
Liberator
Louisiana Advertiser
Louisville Public Advertiser
Lowell Daily Citizen and News (Lowell, Mass.)
Macon Daily Telegraph
Memphis Daily Appeal
Mississippi Free Trader and Natchez Gazette
National Era
Newark Advocate (Ohio)
New Orleans Bee
New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin
New Orleans Daily Creole
New Orleans Daily Crescent
New-Orleans Times
New York Herald
New York Times
North American and Daily Advertiser
North Star (Rochester, N.Y.)
Orleans Gazette, and Commercial Advertiser
Pennsylvania Freeman
Pennsylvania Inquirer and Daily Courier
Pensacola Gazette
Ripley Advertiser
Rosebud; or, Youth’s Gazette
South-Carolina State Gazette, and Timothy’s Daily Advertiser
Southern Agriculturalist
Southern Cultivator
Southern Patriot
Southern Planter
Southern Rose
South-Western
Southwestern Christian Advocate
Sun (Baltimore, Md.)
Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.)
Vermont Chronicle
Weekly Herald (New York, N.Y.)
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Anderson, John Q., ed. Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861–1868. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955.
Anzilotti, Cara, In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002.
Armstrong, Orland Kay. Old Massa’s People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931.
Bailey, David Thomas. “A Divided Prism: Two Sources of Black Testimony on Slavery.” Journal of Southern History 46, no. 3 (1980): 381–404.
Baker, Van R., ed. The Websters: Letters of an Army Family in Peace and War, 1836–1853. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000.
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Berlin, Ira, Barbara Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie Rowland, eds. The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. Series 1, vol. 3 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Berlin, Ira, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds. The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Series 1, vol. 2 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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———. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. New York: Beacon, 2017.
———. “‘We’m Fus’ Rate Bargain’: Value, Labor, and Price in a Georgia Slave Community.” In The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808–1888, ed. Walter Johnson, 55–71. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
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Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
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Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
———. “The Woman Who Wasn’t There: Women’s Market Labor and the Transition to Capitalism in the United Sates.” Journal of the Early Republic 16, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 183–206.
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———. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. Ed. C. Vann Woodward. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
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Clark, Laurel A. “The Rights of a Florida Wife: Slavery, U.S. Expansion, and Married Women’s Property Law.” Journal of Women’s History 22, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 39–63.
Clayton, Ronnie W. Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers’ Project. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South. New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Clinton, Catherine, ed. Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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———. Congress. House of Representatives. A Bill to Be Entitled “An Act to Provide Payment for Slaves Impressed Under State Laws, And Lost In the Public Service.” Richmond, Va.: C.S.A., 1864.
———. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee on Claims. Report of Committee in Claims in the Case of Mary Clark. Richmond, Va.: s.n., 1863.
———. Engineer Department. Estimate of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Required to Meet the Just Claims Presented: Or to Be Presented Hereafter, for the Loss of Slaves Who Have Been Impressed In the State of Virginia. Richmond, Va.: C.S.A., 1864.
———. Act to Perpetuate Testimony in Cases of Slaves Abducted or Harbored by the Enemy and of Other Property Seized, Wasted, or Destroyed by Them. No. 270. Approved August 30, 1861. Richmond, Va.? : s.n., 1861?.
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———. Code of Laws for the District of Columbia: Prepared Under the Authority of the Act of Congress of the 29th of April 1816. Washington, D.C.: David and Force, 1819.
———. Supplemental Act of July 12, 1862. Available at https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/dc-emancipation-act/supplemental-act.html.
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———. The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden, 1865–1900. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902.
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———. Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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———. Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
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———. “‘Trying to Do a Man’s Business’: Slavery, Violence and Gender in the American Civil War.” Gender and History 4, no. 2. (1992): 197–214.
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Hartigan-O’Connor, Ellen. “Gender’s Value in the History of Capitalism.” Journal of the Early Republic 36, no. 4 (Winter 2016): 613–635.
———. “She Said She Did Not Know Money: Urban Women and Atlantic Markets in the Revolutionary Era.” Early American Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 322–352.
———. The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc. A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863–1888. Ed. Mary D. Robertson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.
Holton, Woody. “Equality as Unintended Consequence: The Contracts Clause and the Married Women’s Property Acts.” Journal of Southern History 81, no. 2 (May 2015): 313–340.
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Hunter, Tera. To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Hurmence, Belinda, ed. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of South Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 1989.
Hurwicz, Margo-Lea, et al. “Salient Life Events in Three-Generational Families.” Journal of Gerontology 47 (1992): 11–13.
Hutchinson, A. Code of Mississippi: Being an Analytical Compilation of the Public and General Statutes of the Territory and State, with Tabular References to the Local and Private Acts, from 1798 to 1848. Jackson: Price and Fall, 1848.
Ingraham, Joseph Holt. The South-West: By a Yankee. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835.
Jefferson, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Published by Order of Congress from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State. Ed. H. A. Washington. 9 vols. New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1853–1856.
Johnson, Michael P. “Looking for Lost Kin: Efforts to Reunite Freed Families After Emancipation.” In Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, ed. Catherine Clinton, 15–34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, Explained in Their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works They Are Found. London: Longman, Brown, 1853.
Johnson, Walter. “Masters and Slaves in the Market: Slavery and the New Orleans Trade, 1804–1864.” Ph.D. Diss. Princeton University, 1995.
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