Select Bibliography of Books and Other Materials on Slavery and Slave Culture to Supplement Tours of Hewn-Timber Houses at Francis Marion University

Books

• Aiken, Charles S.
  • The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
  • Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J.F. Blair, 1989.
• Blassingame, John W.
  • The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Boles, John B.
  • Black Southerners, 1619-1869. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
• Dusinberre, William.
  • Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York: Oxford University press, 1996.
• Federal Writers' Project (S.C.). South Carolina Narratives.
  • American Slave: A Composite Biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.
• Ferguson, Leland.
  • Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
• Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth.
  • Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
• Genovese, Eugene.
  • Roll Jordan Roll: the World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
• Gutman, Herbert G.
  • The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.
• Helsey, Alexia Jones.
  • The Many Faces of Slavery. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1999.
• Joyner, Charles W.
  • Down By the Riverside: a South Carolina Slave Community. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
• Kolchin, Peter.
  • American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
• Littlefield, Daniel C.
  • Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
• Lofton, John.
  • Denmark Vesey's Revolt: the Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983.
• Owens, Leslie Howard.
  • This Species of Property: Slave Life and Custom in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
• Raboteau, Albert J.
  • Slave Religion: "The Invisible Institution." New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
• Rosengarten, Theodore.
  • Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. New York: Morrow, 1986.
• Vernon, Amelia Wallace.
  • African-Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
• Vlach, John Michael.
  • Back of the Big house: the Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
• Westmacott, Richard Noble.
  • African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
• Wood, Peter.
  • Black Majority. New York: Norton, 1974.

Video

• Roots.
  • Burbank: Warner Home Video, 1992, c1977

Web Pages

• The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation. 1996. https://www2.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/clp.html (11 Apr. 2000)
• Vernon, Amelia Wallace. Hewn-Timber Houses. 1998. https://www.fmarion.edu/cabins/ (18 Apr. 2000)

Prepared by Roger Hux, Francis Marion University

April, 2000