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"American Experience | Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | Plantations in Ruins | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/plantation/

 

"Charity Anderson." American Studies at The University of Virginia. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/anderso1.html 



“Images of Slavery as Visual Evidence.” Picturing U.S. History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence. http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?p=439



"James Stirling: The Life of Plantation Field Hands, 1857." Internet History Sourcebooks. http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1857stirling.asp 

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Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Colored Woman. Philadelphia: Collins. 1863. Accessed from: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aframer18631900/l/bl_old_elizabeth.htm



"Mary Reynolds." American Studies at The University of Virginia. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/reynold1.html 



"Open Collections Program: Women Working, Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805–1879)." Harvard University Library: Open Collections Program: Home. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/grimke.html



“Rare Daguerreotype Offers Insight to Urban Slavery”. The Community Times. http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/community_times/news/rare-daguerreotype-offers-insight-into-urban-slavery/article_7bcc9d6c-f43b-11e0-b66f-001cc4c002e0.html 

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"Slavery and the Making of America . Timeline | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/



"Tempe Herndon Durham." American Studies at The University of Virginia. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/durham1.html

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"The Future Is Ours to Lose: Timeline Special." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/wolf-timeline.html

 

"The Supreme Court: Justices, Landmark Decisions, Timelines | Infoplease.com." Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help. | Infoplease.com. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/supreme-court.html

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Washington, Reginald. "Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records." National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/spring/freedman-marriage-recs.html





​Academic:

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Freedman, David. “African-American Schooling in the South Prior to 1861.” The Journal of Negro History. Vol. 84, No. 1. (Winter, 1999).

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Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.



Gould, Virginia Meacham. “The Parish Identities of Free Creoles of Color in Pensacola and Mobile, 1698-1860.” U.S. Catholic Historian. Vol. 14, No. 3. Parishes and Peoples: Religious and Social Meanings, Part 2. (Summer, 1996).

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Hine, Darlene Clark, and Kathleen Thompson. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.



Johnson, Whittington B. “Free African-American Women in Savannah, 1800-1860: Affluence and Autonomy Amid Adversity.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 76, No. 2, The Diversity of Southern Gender and Race: Women in Georgia and the South. (Summer 1992).

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King, Wilma. The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women During the Slave Era. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.



Labbé, Dolores Egger. “Mothers and Children in Antebellum Louisiana.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Vol. 34, No. 2. (Spring, 1993).



Schweninger, Loren. “The Roots of Enterprise: Black-Owned Businesses in Virginia, 1830-1880.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 100, No. 4, Freedom, Labor, and Enterprise: Black Virginians in the Nineteenth Century. (October, 1992).



​Sterling, Dorothy. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

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Stowell, David O. “The Free Black Population of Columbia, South Carolina in 1860: A Snapshot of Occupation and Personal Wealth.” The South Carolina Historical Magazine. Vol. 104, No. 1. (January, 2003).



Tansey, Richard. “Out-of-State Free Blacks in Late Antebellum New Orleans.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Vol. 22, No. 4. (Autumn, 1981).

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White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. 1st ed. New York, NY : Norton, 1987.



Yarbrough, Fay A. “Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South.” The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 71, No. 3. (August, 2005).