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African Americans Bibliography

Africa

Curtin, Philip D., ed. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Morgan, Philip D. "African Migration." In Encyclopedia of American Social History. Edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams. Vol. II, pp. 795-809. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Archaeology and Material Culture

Ferguson, Leland. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Katz-Hyman, Martha B. "'In the Middle of this Poverty Some Cups and a Teapot': The Material Culture of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Virginia and the Furnishing of Slave Quarters at Colonial Williamsburg." Research report. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993.

Singleton, Theresa A. "The Archaeology of Slave Life." In Before Freedom Came: African American Life in the Antebellum South. Edited by Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., with Kym Rice. Published for The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Va. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1991.

Yentsch, Anne Elizabeth. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Living History Interpretation

James, Curtia. "To Live Like a Slave," Colonial Williamsburg Journal. Vol. 16, No. 1 (Autumn 1993).

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