Fall 2020 Selected Reading List
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2006)
Backstory Podcast, “1619: The Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia” (2019)
Sherwin K. Bryant, Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing Through Slavery in Colonial Quito (2014)
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (1998)
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004)
Peter Blanchard, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (2008)
David Walker, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1830)
Stephanie Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004)
Ira Berlin, “Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and Its Meaning,” in Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era, ed. David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997), 105–21.
Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War (1997).
Rebecca Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery (2005)
We the People Podcast, “Callie House: Reparations Advocate and Trailblazer” (2018)
Student-Selected Readings and Media on the Legacies of Enslavement & Emancipation
“Racism in Cuba: Banned by Law, Alive On the Streets” AFP (2020)
“Rhode Island to Change State’s Controversial Full Name” NPR (2020)
“Push to Remove Racist Names Draws Support — And Backlash” Pew (2020)
Emily Blanck, “Massachusetts’ ‘Family Slavery’” Slate (2015)
Janna Malamud Smith, “The Direct Line Between Slavery And Racism In Boston” (2019)
“Saving Africatown: Descendants of the Last Slave Ship Fight to Preserve Their History” NowThis News (2020)
“Wreck of last known slave ship – found in Alabama” Channel 4 News (2019)
Mayank Aggarwal, “Connecticut becomes first US state to make it mandatory for high schools to provide African-American studies” Independent (2020)
“Discrimination in the Judicial System” Innovations for Poverty Action (2018)
Kriston McIntosh, “Examining the Black-white Wealth Gap” Brookings (2020)