Archival Collections and Primary Sources

W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • James Austin Anderson Papers, MSS-0078
  • Landon Cabell Garland Letters
  • Manly Family Papers
  • RG 001 University of Alabama Early Administrative Records
  • RG 154 Faculty Minutes, 1831-1854
  • “History of the University of Alabama, volume II, 1902-1952, James Benson Sellers, revised and edited by W. S. Hoole, unpublished manuscript.
  • The Corolla
 
Digital Collections, University of Alabama Libraries, https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu
  • The Corolla.
  • Early University of Alabama administrative records (RG 1, slave receipts).
  • James Austin Anderson Papers.

Secondary Books, Articles, and Essays

  • Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Araujo, Ana Lucia. Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery. New York: Routledge, 2015.
  • Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
  • Baker, Bruce E. What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
  • Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. New York: Belknap Press, 2003.
  • Berry, Mary Frances. My Face is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
  • Berry, Daina Raimey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2017.
  • Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
  • Brophy, Alfred. "The University and the Slaves: Apology and Its Meaning." In The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, ed. Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
  • _____.  University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • _____, ed. Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
  • Clark, Kathleen Ann. Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Clarke, Max and Gary Alan Fine, “’A’ for Apology: Slavery and the Collegiate Discourses of Remembrance – Cases of Brown University and the University of Alabama,” History and Memory 22, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2019): 81-112.
  • Case, Sarah H. Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
  • Cox, Karen L. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (New Perspectives on the History of the South): University of Florida Press, 2003.
  • ______, ed., Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2012.
  • ______. Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. Reprinted with Introduction by David Levering Lewis. New York: Free Press, 1992.
  • Fitzgerald, Michael. Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.
  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper’s and Row, 1988.
  • Fuentes, Marisa J. Dispossed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  • Gilpin, R. Blakeslee. John Brown Still Lives!: Americas Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
  • Green, Hilary. Educational Reconstruction: African American Public Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.
  • ______. "At Freedom's Margins: Race, Disability, Violence and the Brewer Orphan Asylum in Southeastern North Carolina, 1866-1872," Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians 24 (October 2016): 1-22.
  • ______.  "'What, then is the Church?': A Path Forward for Columbia Seminary and Its Slave Past," Repair, a roundtable forum, @This Point: Theological Investigations in Church and Culture 14, no. 1 (Spring 2020).
  • ______. "The Burden of the University of Alabama's Hallowed Grounds," The Public Historian 42, no. 4 (November 2020): 28-40.
  • Green, Sharony. “Alabama’s Female Academies: Educating Young Women Before and After the Civil War,” Alabama Heritage no. 129 (Summer 2018): 36-43.
  • Glymph, Thavolia. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Hillyer, Reiko. Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
  • Hollars, B. J. Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2013.
  • Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton, eds., Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
  • Hubbs, G. Ward. Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015.
  • Hyde, Sarah L. Schooling in the Antebellum South: The Rise of Public and Private Education in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.
  • Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  • Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women and Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
  • King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
  • Kytle, Ethan J. and Blain Roberts. Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy. New York: The New Press, 2018.
  • Mellown, Robert Oliver. The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013.
  • Pargas, Damian Alan. Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • Rainville, Lynn. Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
  • Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Rubin, Anne Sarah. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2014.
  • Savage, Kirk. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in 19th-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
  • Sellers, James B. History of the University of Alabama. Volume I: 1818-1902 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1953).
  • Wendt, Simon. “God, Gandhi, and Guns: The African American Freedom Struggle in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1964-1965,” Journal of African American History 89, no. 1 (Winter, 2004): 36-55.
  • White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1985.
  • Williams, Heather Andrea. Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
  • ____. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Williams, Kidada. They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
  • Willis, Deborah and Barbara Krauthamer, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.

Universities, Slavery, and Reconciliation

  • Brophy, Alfred. "The University and the Slaves: Apology and Its Meaning." In The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, ed. Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
  • _____.  University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Clarke, Max and Gary Alan Fine, “’A’ for Apology: Slavery and the Collegiate Discourses of Remembrance – Cases of Brown University and the University of Alabama,” History and Memory 22, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 81-112.
  • Fuentes, Marisa J. and Deborah Gray White, eds. Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History. Volume 1. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.
  • Green, Hilary N., "'What, then is the Church?': A Path Forward for Columbia Seminary and Its Slave Past," Repair, a roundtable forum, @This Point: Theological Investigations in Church and Culture 14, no. 1 (Spring 2020).
  • ______. "The Burden of the University of Alabama's Hallowed Grounds," The Public Historian 42, no. 4 (November 2020): 28-40.
  • Harris, Leslie M., James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy. Slavery and the University: History and Legacies. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
  • Harris, Leslie M. “Higher Education’s Reckoning with Slavery,” Academe (Winter 2020) (pdf copy available).
  • Inniss, Lolita Buckner, The Princeton Fugitive: The Trials of James Collins Johnson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
  • Oast, Jennifer. Institutional Slavery: Slaveholding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses in Virginia, 1680-1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Platt, R. Eric. Educating the Sons of Sugar: Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017.
  • Whites, LeeAnn. "'You Can't Change History By Moving a Rock:'Gender, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Confederate Memorialization." Chap. 6 in Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South. New York: Palgrave, 2005.
  • Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

Digital Humanities Projects on Slavery at Universities and Colleges