Recommended Reading

Mary Beth Corrigan, Librarian for Collections on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, recommends these books on the evolution of the public memory of Atlantic slavery and and emancipation. Explore the ways that descendants of individuals harmed by slavery and advocates for equality have transformed the perception of memorials, monuments, and interpretive sites shaped by Lost Cause ideology. Most of these works propose new ways of memorializing slavery and emancipation.
 

• "The only unavoidable subject of regret" : George Washington, slavery, and the enslaved community at Mount Vernon
  E312.17 .T4665 2019
  Thompson, Mary V.
• A site of struggle : American art against anti-Black violence
  N8217.B535 S583 2022
• A stain on our past : slavery and memory
  HT861 .S73 2018
• Argentina betrayed : memory, mourning, and accountability
  HV6433.A7 R63 2018
  Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
• At the limits of memory : legacies of slavery in the Francophone world
  HT1180 .A8 2015
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• Begin with the past : building the National Museum of African American History & Culture
• NA6700.W37 W55 2016
  Wilson, Mabel author. (Mabel O.)
• Between freedom and equality : the history of an African American family in Washington, DC
  F205.N4 T67 2021
  Torrey, Barbara Boyle
• Black art in Brazil : expressions of identity
  N6655 .C59 2013
  Cleveland, Kimberly.
• Black women slaves who nourished a nation : artistic renderings of black wet nurses of Brazil
  N8217.B753 C54 2019
  Cleveland, Kimberly
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• Brazil through French eyes : a nineteenth-century artist in the tropics
  F2513 .A73 2015
  Araujo, Ana Lucia
• Claims to memory : beyond slavery and emancipation in the French Caribbean
  F2151 .R33 2006
  Reinhardt, Catherine A.
• Confederates in the attic : dispatches from the unfinished Civil War
  E468.9 .H78 1998
  Horwitz, Tony
• Creating memorials, building identities : the politics of memory in the Black Atlantic
  DT16.5 .R53 2010
  Rice, Alan J.
• Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa
  E184.65 .A88 2017
  Autry, Robyn K.
• Domesticating history : the political origins of America's house museums
  E159 .W445 1999
  West, Patricia
• Ebony and ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities
  LC212.42 .W53 2013
  Wilder, Craig Steven.
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• Face value : the consumer revolution and the colonizing of America
  HC110.C6 C363 2017
  Carson, Cary
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• First in the homes of his countrymen : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American imagination
  E312.5 .B76 2016
  Brandt, Lydia Mattice
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• From morning to night : domestic service in Maymont House and the Gilded Age South
  HD6072.2.U52 V865 2003
  O'Leary, Elizabeth L.
• From no return : the 221-year journey of the slave ship São José, 1794
  HT1394.S6 B67 2016
  Boshoff, Jaco Jacques
• Gather at the table : the healing journey of a daughter of slavery and a son of the slave trade
  E441 .D49 2012
  DeWolf, Thomas Norman
• Inheriting the trade : a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history
  F3 .D48 2008
  DeWolf, Thomas Norman
• Interpreting African American history and culture at museums and historic sites
  E185.53.A1 I58 2014
• Interpreting the Civil War at museums and historic sites
  E646 .L48 2017

• Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
  E332.25 .K47 2018
  Kerrison, Catherine
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• Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project
  E185.625 .S763 2016
  Stewart, Catherine A.
• Making a way out of no way : lives of labor, love, and resistance
  PS3620.A959443 M35 2024
  Taylor, Merideth M.
• Making slavery history : abolitionism and the politics of memory in Massachusetts
  E445.M4 M56 2010
  Minardi, Margot
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• Paths of the Atlantic slave trade : interactions, identities, and images
  HT1321 .P38 2011
• Politics of memory : making slavery visible in the public space
  HT871 .P65 2012
• Race, slavery and the Civil War : the tough stuff of American history and memory
  E453 .R33 2011
• Remembering the Battle of the Crater : war as murder
  E476.93 .L48 2012
  Levin, Kevin M.
• Reparations for slavery and the slave trade : a transnational and comparative history
  E185.89.R45 A73 2017
  Araujo, Ana Lucia
• Representations of slavery : race and ideology in southern plantation museums
  F220.A1 E37 2002
  Eichstedt, Jennifer L.
• Resurrecting slavery : racial legacies and white supremacy in France
  DC34.5.B55 F54 2017
  Fleming, Crystal Marie
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• Rites of August First : Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world
  HT1031 .K47 2007
  Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
• Roots : the saga of an American family
  E185.97.H24 A33
  Haley, Alex
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• Scenes of subjection : terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America
  E443 .H37 2022
  Hartman, Saidiya V.
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• Slavery and public history : the tough stuff of American memory
  E441 .S625 2006
• Slavery and the culture of taste
  PN56.S5765 G55 2011
  Gikandi, Simon.
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• Slavery in New York
  F128.9.N4 S55 2005
• Slavery in the age of memory : engaging the past
  HT871 .A73 2021
  Araujo, Ana Lucia
• Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port
  HT1164.B74 .D74 2001
  Dresser, Madge
• Slavery, resistance, freedom
  E441 .S644 2007
• Slaves in the family
  F279.C453 A2 1998
  Ball, Edward
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• The African Burial Ground in New York City : memory, spirituality, and space
  F128.9.N4 F76 2015
  Frohne, Andrea E.
• The British slave trade and public memory
  HT1162 .K69 2006
  Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth
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• The bonds of family : slavery, commerce and culture in the British Atlantic world
  HT1162 .D66 2020
  Donington, Katie
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• The reason why the colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition : the Afro-American's contribution to Columbian literature
  E185.53.C4 R43 1999
• The social life of DNA : race, reparations, and reconciliation after the genome
  E185.625 .N45 2016
  Nelson, Alondra
• The sweeter the juice
  E185.96 .H175 1994
  Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor.
• There ain't no black in the Union Jack : the cultural politics of race and nation
  DA125.N4 G55 2002
  Gilroy, Paul
• This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War
  E468.9 .F385 2008
  Faust, Drew Gilpin.
• Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : an American controversy
  E332.2 .G67 1997
  Gordon-Reed, Annette.
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• What can and can't be said : race, uplift, and monument building in the contemporary South
  E159 .U67 2015
  Upton, Dell
• Wounds of returning : race, memory, and property on the postslavery plantation
  E185.6 .A24 2007
  Adams, Jessica