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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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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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The Slave Trade
The slave trade touched the lives of people around the globe, explains Colonial Williamsburg's Educational Program Development director Bill White. February 9, 2007
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Mr. Wythe's Cook
Valarie Holmes interprets Lydia Broadnax - a cook for one of Williamsburg's most influential men. June 19, 2006
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Emily James interprets spirited women
Jamaican-born Emily James has interpreted at least 16 different 18th-century women who learned how to survive lives of enslavement. February 27, 2006
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Recalling African American Interpretation
Rex Ellis reflects on 25 years of interpreting the African American experience in the colonial period. February 6, 2006
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African American Interpretation
Harvey Bakari discusses the rich history of black Americans in Williamsburg. January 30, 2006
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Fighting... Maybe for Freedom, but probably not
Slaves and free blacks in the Revolutionary War
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