Recommended Reading List

Special Interest Groups & Education Classes

Beyers, Paula. African American Genealogical Sourcebook. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1995.

Blassingame, John W., ed. The Slave community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Revised and enlarged edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of letter Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Blockson, Charles L. Black Genealogy. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1977.

Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots, a Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. A Fireside Book published by Simon & Schuster, 2001 ISBN 0-684-84704-3

Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Edwards, Bryan. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. New York, NY: Arno Press 1972.

Greenwood, Val. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1990.

Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives. Washington, D. C. National Archives and Records Service, 1985.

Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family from Slavery to Freedom. New York, NY: Vantage Books, A Division of Random House, 1976.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. African in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Kulikoff, Alan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Lackey, Richard S. Cite Your Sources: A Manual for Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1986.

Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

Miller, Randall M. and John D. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Potts, Howard E. A Comprehensive Name Index to the American Slave. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, 19 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1792. Supplement, Series 1, 10 vols. 1977, Supplement, Series 2 10 vols. 1979.

Stamp, Kenneth M., ed. Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985.

Stewart, Roma Jones. Africans in Georgia, 1870. Chicago, IL: Homeland Publications, 1993.

Streets, David H. Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide With Case Studies. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc, 1986.

Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Luebking. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, Inc. 1997.

Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stone Rebellion. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Wright, Roberta and Wilber Hughes. Lay Down Body: Living History in African-American Cemeteries. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink, 1996.