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Bibliography: Teaching About Slavery

Books For Teachers

Alford, Terry. Prince Among Slaves: the True Story of an African Prince Sold into Slavery in the American South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Asante, Molefi K. and Mark T. Mattson. Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Berlin, Ira, editor. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: The New Press, 1992.

Busby, Margaret, editor. Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words & Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Clifton, James, editor. Life and Labor on Argyle Island: Letters and Documents of a Savannah River Plantation, 1833-1867. Savannah: 1978.

Courlander, Harold. A Treasury of African Folklore. New York: Crown, 1976.

Fleischner, Jennifer. Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Jones, Bessie and Bess Lomax Hayes. Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories for the Afro-American Heritage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972.

Killion, Ronald G. Slavery Time When I was Chillun Down on Marster's Plantation: Interviews with Georgia Slave. Savannah: Library of Georgia, 1990.

King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth Century America. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995.

McKissack, Patricia and Frederick L. Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1996.

Sprague, Stuart Seely, editor. His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York: WW. Norton & Co., 1996.

Vlach, John Michael. The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Wright, Donald. African Americans in the Early Republic: 1789-1831. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1993.

Books For Students

Bryan, Ashley. All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals. New York: Atheneum, 1991.

Connell, Kate. Tales From the Underground Railroad. Austin:Steck-Vaughn, 1993.

Edwards, Lillie J. Denmark Vesey. New York: Chelsea House, 1990

Everett, Gwen. John Brown: One Man Against Slavery. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.

Gaines, Edith M. Freedom Light: Underground Railroad Stories From Ripley, Ohio. Cleveland: New Day Press, 1991.

Gorrell, Gena K. North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Delacorte Press, 1996.

Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Random House, 1993.

Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear. New York: Simon and Schuster,1968.

Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly. New York: Knopf, 1985.

Hansen, Joyce. The Captive. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1994.

Hooks, William H. The Ballad of Belle Dorcas. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Jurmain, Suzanne. Freedom's Sons: The True Story of the Amistad Mutiny. New York: Morrow, 1998.

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1968.

Levine, Ellen. If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1988.

Lyons, Mary. Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs. New York: Scribners, 1992.

McKissack, Patricia. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1997.

McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1992.

Rappaport, Doreen. Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

Riggio, Anita. Secret Signs Along the Underground Railroad. Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Boyds Mills Press, Inc., 1997.

Ringgold, Faith. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. New York: Crown, 1992.

Schroeder, Alan. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman. 1st ed. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996.

Stolz, Mary. Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Taylor, Marian. Harriet Tubman. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.

Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1997.

Winter, Jeanette. Follow the Drinking Gourd. New York: Knopf, 1988.

Wright, Courtni Crump. Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Holiday House, 1994.

Young, Richard Alan and Judy, editors. African American Folktales for Young Readers. Little Rock: August House Publishers, Inc., 1993.

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