Research Guide for Slavery and the Civil War Era

The Oxford handbook of slavery in the Americas, ed. by Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 775 p.
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African-American Studies Center: Historical and contemporary information documenting African diaspora and African American history and experience. Includes encyclopedias and other reference works covering all aspects of the African American past. Best place to begin research.

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history: the Black experience in the Americas, ed. by Colin A. Palmer. 2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 6 v.
Lamont  |  REFERENCE    |  E185 .E54 2006 
Widener  |  RR 4781.44.5

Slavery in the United States: a social, political, and historical encyclopedia, ed. by Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. 2 v.
Widener | RR 4781.41.90

The Harvard guide to African-American history, ed. by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001, 923 p. + 1 computer optical disc Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | E185 .H326 2001 CD-ROM in pocket of inside back cover.
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African American Studies Center

Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Encyclopedia of slave resistance and rebellion, ed. by Junius P. Rodriguez. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 2 v.
Widener | WID-LC | E447 .E53 2007

Encyclopedia of emancipation and abolition in the Transatlantic world, ed. by Junius Rodriguez. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2007, 3 v.
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--Vol. 3 contains primary documents)

Proslavery: a history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701-1840, by Larry E. Tise. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987, 501 p.
Widener | WID-LC | E337.5 .T57 1987
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--Good primary source bibliography