Select Bibliography of Secondary Works
BLACKS BEFORE THE LAW IN COLONIAL MARYLAND
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Books
 

Ballagh, James C. A History of Slavery in Virginia. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, extra vol. XXIV. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1902.

Bennett, Jr., J. Harry. Bondsmen and Bishops: Slavery and Apprenticeship on the Codrington Plantations of Barbados, 1710-1838. University of California Publications in History, vol. LXII. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1958.

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York : Oxford University Press, 1972.

Brackett, Jeffrey R. The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, extra vol. VI. Baltimore : John Murphy & Co., 1889.

Craven, Wesley Frank. White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. Charlottsville, Va. : The University Press of Virginia, 1971.

Curtis, James C. & Lewis L. Gould, eds., The Black Experience in America: Selected Essays. Austin, Texas : The University of Texas Press, 1970.

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1966.

Degler, Carl. Neither White nor Black: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States. New York : MacMillan Co., 1971.

Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in America Institutional and Intellectual Life. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1959.

Feldstein, Stanley. Once a Slave: The Slave's View of Slavery. New York : Wm. Marrow, 1971.

Genovese, Eugene. The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation. New York : Pantheon Books, 1969.

Goveia, Elsa V. Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1965.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Dominique and Cuba. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 89th Series, no. 1. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1972.

Johnston, James Hugo. Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860. Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1970.

Jordan, Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Klein, Herbert S. Slavery in the Americas: A Comtemporary Study of Virginia and Cuba. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Klingberg, Frank J. An Appraisal of the Negro in Colonial South Carolina: A Study in Americanization. Washington : Associated Publishers, 1941.

Lane, Ann U., ed. The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and His Critics. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 1971.

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

Rawick, George P., ed. From Sundown to Sunup; the Making of the Slave Community. Vol. I of Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. 19 vols. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Publishing Co., 1972.

Robinson, Donald L. Slavery in the Structure of American Politics 1765-1820. New York : Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1971.

Russell, John H. The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, ser. XXXI, no. 3. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1913.

Stampp, Kenneth. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York : Alfred Knopf, 1956.

Tannenbaum, Frank. Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. New York : Alfred Knopf, 1947.

Turner, Edward R. The Negro in Pennsylvania, Slavery - Servitude -Freedom, 1639-1861. 1911; rpt., New York : Arno Press, 1969.

Wright, James Martin. The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860. New York : Columbia University Press, 1921.
 

Articles

Alpert, Jonathan. "The Origin of Slavery in the United States - The Maryland Precedent." The American Journal of Legal History, XIV (1970), 189-221.

Billings, Warren M. "The Cases of Fernando and Elizabeth Key: A Note on the Status of Blacks in Seventeenth Century Virginia." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXX (1973), 468-74.

Brewer, James H. "Negro Property Owners in Seventeenth-Century Virginia." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XII (1955), 575-80.

Bruns, Roger A. "Anthony Benezet and the Natural Rights of the Negro." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XCVI (1972), 104-13.

Carroll, Kenneth L. "Maryland Quakers and Slavery." Maryland Historical Magazine, XLV (1950), 215-25.

Degler, Carl N. "Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice." Comparative Studies in Society and History, II (1959), 49-66.

________. "Slavery in Brazil and the United States: An Essay in Comparative History." American Historical Review, LXXV (1970), 1004-28.

Frederickson, George M. and Christopher Lasch. "Resistance to Slavery." Civil War History, XIII (1969), 315-29.

Genovese, Eugene. "Rebelliousness and Docility in the Negro Slave: A Critique of the Elkins Thesis." Civil War History, XIII (1967), 293-314.

Goveia, Elsa V. "The West Indian Slave Law of the Eighteenth Century." Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 3d ser., VII (1950), 199-222.

Handlin, Oscar and Mary Handlin. "Origins of the Southern Labor System." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., VII (1950), 199-222.

Hast, Adele. "The Legal Stats of the Negro in Virginia 1705-1765." The Journal of Negro History, LIV (1969), 217-39.

Jones, Jerome W. "The Established Virginia Church and the Conversion of Negroes and Indians, 1620-1760." The Journal of Negro History, XLVI (1961), 12-23.

Jordan, Winthrop D. "American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XIX (1962), 183-200.

________. "The Influence of the West Indies on the Origins of New England Slavery." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XVIII (1961), 243-50.

________. "Modern Tensions and the Origins of American Slavery." The Journal of Southern History, XXVIII (1962), 18-30.

Klein, Herbert S. "Anglicanism, Catholicism and the Negro Slave." Comparative Studies in Society and History, VIII (1966), 295-327.

MacMaster, Richard K. "Arthur Lee's 'Address on Slavery': An Aspect of Virginia's Struggle to End the Slave Trade, 1765-1774." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. LXXX (1972), 141-57.

Moore, Wilbert E. "Slave Law and Social Structure." The Journal of Negro History, XXVI (1941), 171-202.

Morgan, Edmund S. "Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox." Journal of American History, LIX (1972), 5-29.

Nash, Gary B. "Slaves and Slaveholders in Colonial Philadelphia." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXX (1973), 223-56.

O'Brien, S.J., William. "Did the Jennison Case Outlaw Slavery in Massachusetts?" William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XVII (1960), 219-41.

Padgett, James A. "The Status of Slaves in Colonial North Carolina." The Journal of Negro History, XIV (1929), 300-27.

Palmer, Paul C. "Servant into Slave: The Evolution of the Legal Status of the Negro Laborer in Colonial Virginia." The South Atlantic Quarterly, LXV (1966), 355-70.

Plumb, J.H. "Slavery, Race, and the Poor." New York Review of Books, XII (Mar. 13, 1969), 3-5.

Sirmans, M. Eugene. "The Legal Status of the Slave in South Carolina, 1670-1740." The Journal of Southern History, XXVIII (1962), 462-73.

Spector, Robert M. "The Quock Walker Cases (1781-1783) -- Slavery, Its Abolition, and Negro Citizenship in Early Massachusetts." The Journal of Negro History, LIII (1968), 12-32.

Towner, Lawrence W. "'A Fondness for Freedom': Servant Protest in Puritan Society." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXIV (1967), 224-42.

Twombly, Robert C. & Robert H. Moore. "Black Puritan: The Negro in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXVI (1967), 224-42.

Vaughan, Alder T. "Blacks in Virginia: A Note on the First Decade." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXIX (1972), 469-78.

Zilversmit, Arthur. "Quok Walker, Mumbet, and the Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXV (1968), 614-24.


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