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Slavery in Virginia (and general)

Black Women in the era of Slavery

Ballaugh, James C. A history of slavery in Virginia. Baltimore. 1902.

Boskin, Joseph. Into Slavery: Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony. The America's alternatives series. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1976

Breen, T. H. and Innes, Stephen. Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore., New York: Oxford University Press, 1980

Coleman, Mrs. George P, ed. Virginia Silhouettes: Contemporary letters concerning negro slavery in the state of Virginia. 1934.

Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802. Chapel Hill. 1993

Freehling, Alison Goodyear. Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-1832. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982

Guild, June Purcell. Black Laws of Virginia: A summary of the legislative acts of Virginia negroes from earliest times to the present. Richmond. 1936

Higginson, Thomas W. " Gabriel's defeat" . Atlantic Monthly 10. (1862): 337-45.

Hucles, Michael, "Don't Grieve After Me": The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986. Hampton, Va.: Hampton University, 1986

Johnston, James Hugo. Race relations in Virginia and miscegenation in the south 1776-1860. 1970.

Kimball, William J. " The Gabriel's Insurrection of 1800 " Negro History Bulletin 34 (1971): 153-56.

Latimer, Frances Bibbins. Instruments of Freedom: Deeds and Wills of emancipation, Northampton County, Virginia, 1782 to 1864. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1994

Minchinton, Walter E. Virginia Slave-trade Statistics, 1698-1775. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1984

Morgan, Lynda J. Emancipation in Virginia's Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992

Mullin, Gerald W. Flight and Rebellion; Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-century Virginia. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972

Plunkett, Michael, Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A guide to manuscripts

Schnittman, Suzanne Gehring " Slavery in Virginia's urban tobbacco industry, 1840-1860" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1986.

Schwartz, " Slave discipline in Virginia" M.A. thesis, Columbia University 1947.

Schweninger, Loen. " The underside of slavery: The Internal economy, self-hire and the Quasi-Freedom in Virginia 1780-1865" Slavery and Abolition 12 (1991): 1-22.

Siegel, Frederick F. The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1987

Silvers, Damon Abraham. Industry, Immigration, and Slavery: The Working People of Richmond, Virginia, 1845-1865. Thesis (A.B., Honors)--Harvard University, 1986

Takagi, Midori. Rearing Wolves to our own destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia 1782-1865. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1999

Tyler-McGraw, Marie. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Valentine Museum; [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Walsh, Lorena S. From Calabash to Carter's Grove: A history of a Virginia Slave Community. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1997.

Afro-American Sources In Virginia: A guide to manuscripts:
LIBRARY OF VA:
858. AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, PUBLIC CLAIMS, FREE BLACKS
ca. 500 items, 1833-37, 1839, 1850-60, 1862-63 Reports on free blacks, including acts for removal, assessments, capitation taxes, and voluntary enslavements. (RG 48.757
) 859. AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, PUBLIC CLAIMS, INSURRECTIONS
ca. 400 items, 1800-1801, 1831-33 Records, consisting mainly of militia payrolls and accounts of other expenses involved in the official reaction to two slave revolts, Gabriel's Insurrection and Nat Turner's Rebellion. (RG 48.758)

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