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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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In Their Own Words
Old sources give fresh voice to slavery's story. Manager of African American programs Tricia Brooks explains how we know what we know. May 18, 2009
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African American Programs at 30
African American programming adapts through the decades. Harvey Bakari outlines the goals of interpreting Williamsburg's enslaved population. February 2, 2009
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The Bray School
A historic headmistress devotes her days to educating enslaved children. Interpreter Antoinette Brennan shares the biography of Ann Wager. September 29, 2008
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No Master Over Me
A man purchases his enslaved family to set them free. James Ingram shares the tale. February 4, 2008
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A Slave's Perspective
The Declaration of Independence was a promise extended to white men only. Hope Smith portrays Eve, a slave in the Peyton Randolph house. July 16, 2007
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Slavery and Manumission
The little-known process of manumission was a means of securing freedom for a handful of Virginia slaves. May 21, 2007
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To Live Like a Slave
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Slave Conspiracies in Colonial Virginia
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