Sept. 8, 2025
A readings list on American slavery
Hi everyone!
For anyone interested, this is a reading list of some books on US history, the history of New World slavery, and the oppression of Black to go with the episode, The Whitewashing of American Slavery, Part 1. The list is necessarily truncated, but if it's missing something that you this should be added, please let us know. We'd love to hear from you!
- Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944)
- Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)
- Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925 (1976)
- To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (Stephen B. Oates, 1970)
- James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
- David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Reconstruction and Its Benefits (essay) (1910)
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
- Kenneth Stamp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1961)
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (1988)
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
- Blair LM Kelley, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (2020)
Below are links to the videos cited in this episode:
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