Further Reading
Exercise 1
- Douglas R. Egerton, Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 (Chapel Hill, 1993).
- Douglas R. Egerton, “Gabriel’s Conspiracy and the Election of 1800,” Journal of Southern History, 56 (May 1990), 191–214.
- Gerald W. Mullin, Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth–Century Virginia (New York, 1972).
- Peter S. Onuf, “Every Generation Is an ‘Independant Nation’: Colonization, Miscegenation and the Fate of Jefferson’s Children,” William and Mary Quarterly, 57 (Jan. 2000), 153–170.
- Philip J. Schwarz, “Gabriel’s Challenge: Slaves and Crime in Late Eighteenth Century Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 90 (July 1982), 283–309.
- James Sidbury, Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel’s Virginia, 1730–1810 (Cambridge, Eng., 1997).
Exercise 2
- Patrick S. Brady, “The Slave Trade and Sectionalism in South Carolina, 1787–1808,” Journal of Southern History, 38 (Nov. 1972), 601–20.
- Joyce E. Chaplin, “Creating a Cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760–1815,” Journal of Southern History, 57 (May 1991), 171–200.
- John Craig Hammond, “‘They Are Very Much Interested in Obtaining an Unlimited Slavery’: Rethinking the Expansion of Slavery in the Louisiana Purchase Territories, 1803–1805,” Journal of the Early Republic, 23 (Autumn 2003), 353–80.
- Rachel Klein, Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808 (Chapel Hill, 1990).
- Matthew E. Mason, “Slavery Overshadowed: Congress Debates Prohibiting the Atlantic Slave Trade to the United States, 1806–1807,” Journal of the Early Republic, 20 (Spring 2000), 59–81.
- Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Cambridge, Mass., 2005), 73–118.
Exercise 3
- Eric Burin, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society (Gainesville, 2005).
- Douglas R. Egerton, “‘Its Origin Is Not a Little Curious’: A New Look at the American Colonization Society,” Journal of the Early Republic, 5 (Winter 1985), 463–80.
- Peter S. Onuf, “‘To Declare Them a Free and Independent People’: Race, Slavery, and National Identity in Jefferson’s Thought,” Journal of the Early Republic, 18 (Spring 1998), 1–46.
- P. J. Staudenraus, The African Colonization Movement, 1816–1865 (New York, 1961).
- James Brewer Stewart, “The Emergence of Racial Modernity and the Rise of the White North, 1790–1840,” Journal of the Early Republic, 18 (Summer 1998), 181–217.
- David M. Streifford, “The American Colonization Society: An Application of Republican Ideology to Early Antebellum Reform,” Journal of Southern History, 45 (May 1979), 201–20.
Exercise 4
- Richard H. Brown, “The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and the Politics of Jacksonianism,” South Atlantic Quarterly, 65 (Winter 1966), 55–72.
- Robert Pierce Forbes, The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America (Chapel Hill, 2007).
- Stuart Leibirger, “Thomas Jefferson and the Missouri Crisis: An Alternative Interpretation,” Journal of the Early Republic, 17 (Spring 1997), 121–30.
Exercise 5
- Douglas R. Egerton, “‘Why They Did Not Preach Up This Thing’: Denmark Vesey and Revolutionary Theology,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 100 (Oct. 1999), 298–318.
- William W. Freehling, “Denmark Vesey’s Peculiar Reality,” in New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp, ed. Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish, (Lexington, Ky, 1986), 25–50.
- Robert Gross, ed., “Forum: The Making of a Slave Conspiracy Part 2,” William and Mary Quarterly, 59 (Jan. 2002), 135–202.
- Michael P. Johnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators,” William and Mary Quarterly, 58 (Oct. 2001), 915–76.
- Robert L. Paquette and Douglas R. Egerton, “Of Facts and Fables: New Light on the Denmark Vesey Affair,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 105 (Jan. 2004), 8–35.
- Robert L. Paquette, “From Rebellion to Revisionism: The Continuing Debate About the Denmark Vesey Affair,” Journal of the Historical Society, 4 (Sept. 2004), 291-334.
- Richard C. Wade, “The Vesey Plot: A Reconsideration,” Journal of Southern History, 30 (May 1964),143–61.
Exercise 6
- John Ashworth, “The Relationship Between Capitalism and Humanitarianism,” American Historical Review, 92 (Oct. 1987), 813–28.
- Lacy K. Ford Jr., “Inventing the Concurrent Majority: Madison, Calhoun, and the Problem of Majoritarianism in American Political Thought,” Journal of Southern History, 60 (Feb. 1994), 19–58.
- William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol. I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854 (New York, 1990).
- Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), 257–80.
- Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (New York, 1993).
- Susan Wyly-Jones, “The 1835 Anti-Abolition Meetings in the South: A New Look at the Controversy over the Abolition Postal Campaign,” Civil War History, 47 (Dec. 2001), 289–309.