History 400: Slave Revolts in the Americas: Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution
Junior Seminar, Fall 2006
Background Sources

Drescher, Seymour and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. A Historical Guide to World Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. (F) HT861 .H59 1998

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Macmillan Reference USA: Simon and Schuster Macmillan; London: Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, 1998. (DR) HT861 .M24 1998

Klein, Martin A. Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. (DR) HT861 .K54 2002

Perusse, Roland I. Historical Dictionary of Haiti. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977. (F) F1913.P47

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Chronology of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. (DR) HT861 .R63 1999 
Includes some primary source documents on slavery in the region, and bibliographical section which includes references to slavery in the Caribbean.

__________.  Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997. (DR) HT861 .H57 1997


Bibliographies

Chambers, Frances. Haiti. Oxford; Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Press, 1994. (DR) Z1531 .C425 1994 
Historical section covers Saint Domingue,1492-1791 and Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804.

Comitas, Lambros. The Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature.  Research Institute Study of Man. Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press, c1977.  (DR) Z1595 .C63

Laguerre, Michel S. The Complete Haitiana: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature, 1900-1980. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1982. (DR) Z1531 .L33
Volume I covers General History, 1491-1980; Slavery, Marronage and Emancipation, 1492-1803; and Post-Independence, 1804-1914.

Ragatz, Lowell J., comp. A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, 1763-1834, including the abolition and emancipation movements.  Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932. (F) Z1502.B5R22



Relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings for Locating Books in the Online Catalog

Haiti -- History -- To 1791.
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804.

Jamaica -- History -Slave Insurrection, 1831

Slave Insurrections -- Caribbean Area
Slave Insurrections -- Haiti 
Slave Insurrections -- South Carolina
Slave Insurrections -- Southern states
Slave Insurrections -- United States

Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- Insurrections, etc. 
Slavery -- Caribbean, English-speaking --Insurrections, etc.
Slavery -- Haiti 
Slavery -- Haiti -- Insurrections, etc. 
Slavery -- Jamaica
Slavery -- Southern States --Insurrections, etc. 
Slavery -- West Indies, British
Slavery -- West Indies, French
Slavery -- West Indies -- Insurrections, etc. 

Slaves -- Haiti -- Emancipation 
Slaves -- Southern States --Social conditions 
Slaves -- Caribbean, English-speaking --Social conditions 

Toussaint Louverture, Francois Dominique, 1743-1803.

Women Slaves
Women Slaves -- Jamaica
Women Slaves -- South Carolina
Women Slaves -- United States


Resources for Finding Scholarly Articles and Books

America: History and Life
Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
Provides full-text and page images of several hundred American periodicals of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
A full-text collection of published non-fiction works is included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters, and other materials of leading African-Americans. Biographical essays by leading scholars and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database are also featured.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Annotated bibliography and index to books, articles and a variety of other materials. Updated monthly.

Historical Abstracts
Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

JSTOR
Full text archive of core journals in select disciplines. Journal issues from the most recent 3-5 years are usually NOT available electronically through JSTOR. 

Periodicals Index Online
Index to millions of articles published in 4,547 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. 

Pratt, Frantz, ed. Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800-1990. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. (F) Z1531 .H35 1991


Selected Primary Sources

American Periodicals, 1741-1900: An Index to the Microfilm Collections--American periodicals 18th century, American periodicals, 1800-1850, American periodicals, 1850 1900, Civil War and Reconstruction.  Edited by Jean Hoornstra and Trudy Heath. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979.  Firestone Microforms Services (FilmB) Z6951 .H65

Catterall, Helen Tunnicliff, ed. Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro.  Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein, 1998. (F) KF4545.S5 J83 1998

Donnan, Elizabeth. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1930-35. (F) HT975 .D7

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Digital library of works published in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Materials include fiction and non-fiction covering every aspect of American life in the period. Note: (not yet complete)

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Digital library of works published in America in the early 19th century. Materials include fiction and non-fiction covering every aspect of American life in the period. Note: (not yet complete)

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922
Provides searchable full-text of newspapers more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers including titles from all 50 states. Includes newspapers from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society, the Library of Congress, the Wisconsin Historical Society and others, including the microfilm collection based on Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers."

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Provides partially searchable digital images of about 150,000 books, primarily British, printed in the eighteenth century. Based on the Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue.

Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature.  New Haven, CT: Research Publications, 1974-.  MICROFILM S00656 
reels 1-3833; suppl., reels 1-425; suppl., reels 427-472.  Accompanying guide shelved at (DR) Z7164.E2G64 and (FilmB) Z7164.E2G64, Z7164.E2G642 and Z7164.E2G643  Individual works in this collection are cataloged separately in the Online Catalog.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers. Slave Trade. Shannon, Irish University Press [1968-.] (F) Oversize HT1161 .I73q

Slavery Source Material and Critical Literature.  Louisville, KY: Lost Cause Press, 1971-.  MICROFICHE 199.  Accompanying guide (FilmB) HT857.S528
Individual works in this collection are cataloged separately in either the Card Catalog or the Online Catalog, or are listed in the guide accompanying this collection located in (Film B). 

Slavery Tracts and Pamphlets from the West India Committee Collection.  London: World Microfilms Publications, [1982]  MICROFILM 05622.  Accompanying guide (Film B) HT1071.S52

Saint Domingue

Boisrond Tonnerre, Louis Félix. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Haïti. Port-au-Prince, Haïti : Editions Fardin, 1981.
Reprint. Originally published: 1852. (F) F1923 .B67 1981

Hassal, Mary. Secret history; or, The horrors of St. Domingo, in a series of letters, written by a lady at Cape Francois, to Colonel Burr, late vice-president of the United States, principally during the command of General Rochambeau. Philadelphia, Bradford & Inskeep, 1808. (Ex) F1923.H3; also in (F) 1337.437 and Microforms Services (Film) microprint no. 15201

Lacroix, Pamphile. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Révolution de Saint-Domingue. Pillet aîné, 1820. 2d. (Ex) 1337.554

New York Public Library. Kobler (John) Haitian Revolution Research Material, 1791-1806.
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/scm/sckobler/@Generic__BookView

British Jamaica

Sells, William. Remarks on the Condition of the Slaves in the Island of Jamaica. Facsim. reprint of the 1823 ed. Shannon, Irish University Press [1972].  (F) HT1096.S35.182

Senior, Bernard Martin. Jamaica, as it was, as it is, and as it may be ... by a retired military officer. New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]. Reprint of the 1835 ed. (F) 1342.853

United States

Coffin, Joshua. An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and others, which have occurred, or been attempted, in the United States and elsewhere, during the last two centuries. With various remarks. Collected from various sources by Joshua Coffin. New York, Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860. (Annex A) E447.C67

Library of Congress.  Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 "contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Of the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great Britain."

South Carolina.  The statutes at large of South Carolina.  Edited, under authority of the legislature, by Thomas Cooper and David J. McCord. Columbia, S.C. : Printed by A. S. Johnston, 1836-1841. (ReCap) 7819.02

Compiled by Emily M. Belcher
September 2006