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Slavery in Virginia
Guide to published and online resources about the history of slavery in Virginia and the United States
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Websites
The Angela Site (Historic Jamestowne)
Archaelogical site associated with one of the first Africans in Virginia.
The Domestic Slave Trade in Virginia (Encyclopedia Virginia)
Overview of the sale of enslaved labor in Virginia.
The First Africans (Historic Jamestowne)
Article and videos exploring the the first Africans brought to Virginia by the transatlantic slave trade.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage (Encyclopedia Virginia)
Overview of the transatlantic slave trade and its impact on Virginia.
Virginia’s First Africans (Encyclopedia Virginia)
History of the first enslaved Africans brought to Virginia in August 1619.
Books
American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond
by
Gregg D. Kimball
Publication Date: 2000
Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. Vol. 4, “Virginia"
by
Elizabeth Donnan
Publication Date: 1930–1935
Available online
(pages 49–234).
The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States
by
Winfield H. Collins
Publication Date: 1904
Available online.
The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade
by
Herbert S. Klein
Publication Date: 1978
The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion
by
Jack Trammell
Publication Date: 2012
Seeing the Scars of Slavery in the Natural Environment: An Interpretive Guide to the Manchester Slave Trail along the James River in Richmond
by
Ralph R. White and Philip J. Schwarz
Publication Date: 2002
Slave Trading in the Old South
by
Frederic Bancroft
Publication Date: 1996
First published in 1931.
Virginia Slave-Trade Statistics, 1698-1775
by
Walter Minchinton, Celia King, and Peter Waite
Publication Date: 1984
Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts
by
Jeff Forret
Publication Date: 2020
“Colonial Virginia and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
by
Susan Alice Westbury
Publication Date: 1981
PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Available on
Proquest Dissertations & Theses
.
“Slave Trade and Sentiment in Antebellum Virginia”
by
Phillip Davis Troutman
Publication Date: 2000
PhD diss., University of Virginia.
Available online.
“The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Virginia in Comparative Historical Perspectives, 1698–1778.”
by
Douglas B. Chambers
Publication Date: 1999
From
Afro-Virginian History and Culture
(ed. John Saillant).
United States
Websites
Slave Voyages
Digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the slave trade.
Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora
Historical images documenting the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
Books
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
by
Steven Deyle
Publication Date: 2005
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by
Edward E. Baptist
Publication Date: 2014
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Slave Trade
by
Alexandra J. Finley
Publication Date: 2020
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Trade Shaped America
by
Joshua D. Rothman
Publication Date: 2021
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
by
Sven Beckert (Editor); Seth Rockman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1870
by
Hugh Thomas
Publication Date: 1997
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South
by
Michael Tadman
Publication Date: 1989
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History
by
James A. Rawley; Stephen D. Behrendt
Publication Date: 2005
A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
by
Robert H. Gudmestad
Publication Date: 2004
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