Further Reading

Each article or book listed below provides further context for the lives of the enslaved people who labored on UA's campus. Information contained in the Overview and in the entries on the Their Lives page draws from this scholarship and UA's Early Administration Records. 

Slavery at The University of Alabama

  • Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Pro-slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts, and the Coming of Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Alfred L. Brophy, "The University and the Slaves: Apology and Its Meaning." In The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner, 114–17. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
  • Max Clarke and Gary Alan Fine. "'A' for Apology: Slavery and the Collegiate Discourses of Remembrance—the Cases of Brown University and the University of Alabama."  History & Memory 22, no. 1 (April 1, 2010): 81–112.
  • Maxwell J. Farley, "'Justice Sheer and Simple:" Institutional Slavery at the Antebellum University of Alabama." Master's Thesis, Middle Tennessee State University, 2020.
  • A. James Fuller, "'I Whipped Him a Second Time, Very Severely": Basil Manly, Honor, and Slavery at the University of Alabama," in Leslie M. Harris, James. T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy eds., Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
  • Hilary N. Green, "The Hallowed Grounds Tour: Revising and Reimagining Landscapes of Race and Slavery at The University of Alabama," in Eric Avila and Thaïsa Way eds., Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023): 297-324.
  • Hilary N. Green, "The Burden of the University of Alabama's Hallowed Grounds," The Public Historian 42, no. 4 (November 2020): 28-40.
  • Katie Marks, "Exploitation and Resistance: Enslaved Motherhood at the University of Alabama," Crimson Historical Review, vol. III, no. 2 (2021): 52-63.
  • Ford Mozingo, "The Changing Nature of Slavery at the University of Alabama, 1828-1865," Crimson Historical Review, vol. IV, no. 1 (2021): 41-54.
  • Ellen Griffith Spears & James C. Hall, "Engaging the Racial Landscape at the University of Alabama," in Leslie M. Harris, James. T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy eds., Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.

Slavery in Alabama

  • Michael Fitzgerald, Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.
  • William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flint. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018.
  • James Benson Sellers, Slavery in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1950.   

Early University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa

  • Clark E. Center Jr., "The Burning of the University of Alabama." Alabama Heritage 16 (Spring 1990).
  • Matthew William Clinton, Tuscaloosa Alabama – Its Early Days 1816-1865. Tuscaloosa: 1958.
  • Royal C. Dumas, "My Son and My Money Go to the University of Alabama? The Students at the University of Alabama in 1845 and the Families That Sent Them," Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2011): 65-86.
  • A. James Fuller, Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and the Baptist Life in the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 
  • Robert O. Mellown, The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and its Architecture. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. 2013. 
  • James August Pate, "Basil Manly and His Administration at The University of Alabama, 1837-1855." Master's Thesis, University of Alabama, 1955.
  • James Benson Sellers, History of the University of Alabama, Volume 1, 1818-1902. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1953.
  • Suzanne Rau Wolfe, The University of Alabama: A Pictorial History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1983.  

History of Race and Slavery in the United States

  • Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2003. 
  • Daina Ramey Berry, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. New York: Beacon Press, 2017.
  • Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris eds., Sexuality & Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
  • Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Alexandra J. Finley, An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
  • John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Marisa J. Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  • Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Saidiya Hartman, "Venus in Two Acts," Small Axe, vol. 12, no. 2 (2008): 1-14.
  • Tera W. Hunter, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2017.
  • Tera W. Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
  • Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, From Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
  • Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
  • Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 
  • Wilma King, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
  • R. J. Knight, "Mistresses, Motherhood, and Maternal Exploitation in the Antebellum South," Women's History Review 27 (2018): 990-1005.
  • R. J. Knight, "Mothering and Labour in the Slavehold Households of the Antebellum American South," Past & Present, Supplement 15 (2020): 145-166.
  • Jonathan D. Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 
  • Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2021.
  • Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
  • Joshua D. Rothman, The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. New York: Basic Books, 2021.
  • Marie J. Schwartz, Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • Emily West and R. J. Knight, "Mothers' Milk: Slavery, Wet-Nursing, and Black and White Women in the Antebellum South," Journal of Southern History, vol. 83 no. 1 (2017): 37-68.
  • Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985.
  • John. J. Zaborney, Slaves For Hire: Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

Race, Slavery, and the University

  • Marisa J. Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, eds., Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History. Volume 1. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016.
  • Marisa J. Fuentes, Kendra Boyd, and Deborah Gray White, eds., Scarlet and Black: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945. Volume II. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
  • Hilary N. Green and Adam H. Domby eds., "Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement," Journal of the Civil War Era, 13 (2023).
  • Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry, Invisible No More: The African Experience at the University of South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021.
  • Leslie Harris, "Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery," Academe vol. 106 no. 1 (Winter 2020). 
  • Leslie M. Harris, James. T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy eds., Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
  • Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson eds., Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 
  • Jennifer Oast, Institutional Slavery: Slaveholding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses in Virginia, 1680-1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza, eds., Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021.
  • Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2020. 
  • Rachel L. Swarns, The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church. New York: Penguin Random House, 2023.
  • Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.