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History 470 - African American Studies 453: Plantation Society in the Americas

Books

"The Force of Food: Life on the Atkins Family Sugar Plantation in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1884-1900" by Rebekah E. Pite, The Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 5, (2003), pp. 58-93
Autobiography of James L. Smith, including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. by James L. Smith. 1881.
Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman (1995).
Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave. by James Williams. 1873.
"Assessing the Usefulness of a Cartographic Curiosity: The 1673 Map of a Sugar Island" by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 408-422
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a native of Africa: but resident above sixty years in the United States of America. Related by himself. by Smith, Venture. 1789.
Wholesale tobacco prices in Virginia and Maryland, by region: 1647–1820 by Historical Statistics of the United States, Millenial Edition Online.
Inside View of Slavery, or A Tour Among the Planters. by C. G. Parsons. 1855.
Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation by Handler, Jerome S., Riordan, Robert V., Lange, Frederick W. (1978).
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. by Harriet Jacobs. 1861.
Sketches of slave life: or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'. by Peter Randolph. 1855.
Twelve years a slave.: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. by Solomon Northup. 1853.
Three Months in Jamaica, in 1832: Comprising a Residence of Seven Weeks on a Sugar Plantation. by Henry Whitely. 1833.
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain by Paul Clemens (1980).
Sugar Farm in Jamaica / Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. by Sept. 3, 1836, pp. 348-50.