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Suggested Reading

The books listed here include instructional genealogy manuals, historical works, and family histories related to antebellum African Americans: Baker, John F., Jr., The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation (New York: Atria Books, 2009). Ball, Edward, Slaves in the Family (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Clayton, Ralph, Cash for Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2002). Dunaway, Wilma A., The African American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Gutman, Herbert, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (New York: Vintage Books, 1977). Rose, James M. and Alice Eichholz, Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African American Genealogy, Second Edition (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003). Shaw, Robert B., A Legal History of Slavery in the United States (New York: Northern Press, 1991). Streets, David H., Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986).

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