Freedom in the Age of Slavery

A History of Free People of Color in Virginia

Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

Integration at Second Base

Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship

Peter Eisenstadt

Out of Virginia

Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia

Joseph P. Stinnett

Words Colliding

The Debate over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America

Andrew F. Hammann

Grievous Entanglement

Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Erin Pearson

Unleashing Black Power

Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers

Peter D. Blackmer

Slavery's Medicine

Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean

Claire E. Gherini

The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community

Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832

Reginald D. Butler. Edited by Peter S. Onuf

Seeking Justice

The Extraordinary Freedom Suits of an Enslaved Virginia Family

Daniel B. Thorp

The Belgian Friendship Building

From the New York World's Fair to a Virginia HBCU

Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, and Bryan Clark Green

Architectures of Slavery

Ruins and Reconstructions

Edited by Nathaniel Robert Walker and Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann

A Soldier's Life

A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

Edna W. Cummings

From Morning to Night

Domestic Service in Maymont House and the Gilded Age South

Elizabeth O'Leary

Freedom Has a Face

Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia

Kirt von Daacke

Call Me Larry

A Creole Man's Triumph over Racism and Homophobia

Larry Bagneris, with Ryan Gomez

Roses in December

Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights

Jody Lynn Allen

Race, Politics, and Reconstruction

The First Black Cadets at Old West Point

Edited by Rory McGovern and Ronald G. Machoian

Bitter Fruits of Bondage

The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865

Armstead L. Robinson. Introduction by Joseph P. Reidy

Lynching in Virginia

Racial Terror and Its Legacy

Edited by Gianluca De Fazio. Afterword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Race Man

The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr.

Ann Field Alexander

Justice for Ourselves

Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

John G. Deal, Marianne E. Julienne, and Brent Tarter. Foreword by Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan

Black Reason, White Feeling

The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

Hannah Spahn

Richard Potter

America's First Black Celebrity

John A. Hodgson

After Emancipation

Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia

Edited by Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglas

The Punitive Turn

New Approaches to Race and Incarceration

Edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena N. Harold, and Juan Battle

The Key to the Door

Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia

Edited by Maurice Apprey and Shelli M. Poe

A Place Called Ilda

Race and Resilience at a Northern Virginia Crossroads

Tom Shoop

The Struggle for Change

Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond

Marvin T. Chiles

The Poetic Justice

A Memoir

John Charles Thomas

Exuberance

Dialogues in African American Abstract Painting

Susan Zurbrigg and Beth Hinderliter

Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden

Anne Spencer’s Ecopoetics

Carlyn Ena Ferrari

Economy Hall

The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

Fatima Shaik

In the True Blue's Wake

Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation

Daniel B. Thorp

Strategies for Survival

Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia

William Dusinberre

The Booker T. Washington Papers : Digital Edition

Booker T. Washington. Edited by Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock

Monumental

Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana

Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon

Against the Hounds of Hell

A Life of Howard Thurman

Peter Eisenstadt

Black Landscapes Matter

Edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada

Yuletide in Dixie

Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory

Robert E. May

A Guidebook to Virginia's African American Historical Markers

originally published by Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Compiled by Jennifer R. Loux, Matthew Gottlieb, and James K. Hare. Foreword by Colita N. Fairfax

Schooling Jim Crow

The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics

Jay Winston Driskell Jr.

After August

Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama

Patrick Maley

Facing Freedom

An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow

Daniel B. Thorp

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Edited by Brian J. Daugherity and Brian Grogan

We Face the Dawn

Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow

Margaret Edds

The Collected Essays of Josephine J. Turpin Washington

A Black Reformer in the Post-Reconstruction South

Josephine Turpin Washington. Edited by Rita B. Dandridge

Word, Like Fire

Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans

Valerie C. Cooper

Charlottesville 2017

The Legacy of Race and Inequity

Louis P. Nelson and Claudrena N. Harold

Segregation's Science

Eugenics and Society in Virginia

Gregory Michael Dorr

Trans-Atlantic Sojourners

The Story of an Americo-Liberian Family

M. Neely Young

Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life

Christopher Freeburg

Trustbuilding

An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility

Rob Corcoran. foreword by Tim Kaine

Keep On Keeping On

The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia

Brian J. Daugherity

The Risen Phoenix

Black Politics in the Post–Civil War South

Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego

A House Divided

Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865

Patience Essah

Whispers of Rebellion

Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy

Michael L. Nicholls

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery

Henry Goings. Edited by Calvin Schermerhorn, Michael Plunkett, and Edward Gaynor

Frederick Douglass

A Life in Documents

Frederick Douglass. Edited by L. Diane Barnes

Gabriel's Conspiracy

A Documentary History

Edited by Philip J. Schwarz

The Preacher and the Politician

Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America

Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers

In Search of Julien Hudson

Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans

Edited by Erin M. Greenwald

Criminal Injustice

Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System

Glenn McNair

Art and Revolution

The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist

Diana Wylie

States of Violence

Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa

Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham, eds.

The Segregated Scholars

Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950

Francille Rusan Wilson

Clotel, or the President's Daughter : Digital Edition

William Wells Brown. Edited by Christopher Mulvey

Murder at Morija

Faith, Mystery, and Tragedy on an African Mission

Tim Couzens

Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies

Black Images and Their Influence on Culture

Patricia A. Turner

A Way out of No Way

Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South

Dianne Swann-Wright

The Lynching of Emmett Till

A Documentary Narrative

Christopher Metress

Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction

Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865

Midori Takagi

The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy

A Social History of an American Phenomenon

Melvin Patrick Ely

Migrants against Slavery

Virginians and the Nation

Philip J. Schwarz

From Calabar to Carter's Grove

The History of a Virginia Slave Community

Lorena S. Walsh

Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900

Mary Ellen Curtin

Forgotten Time

The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

John C. Willis

Leading the Race

The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880–1920

Jacqueline M. Moore

Rituals of Race

American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy

Alessandra Lorini

Slave in A Box

The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima

Maurice M. Manring

Enterprising Southerners

Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915

Robert C. Kenzer

Before Freedom Came

African-American Life in the Antebellum South

Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. and Kim S. Rice, eds.

Blacks in Eden

The African American Novel's First Century

J. Lee Greene

A New Plantation South

Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas

Jeannie M. Whayne

Virginia Landmarks of Black History

Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places

Calder Loth, ed.

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.

Sterling A. Brown

Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition

Joanne V. Gabbin

Anthropology and Africa

Changing Perspectives on a Changing Scene

Sally Falk Moore

Cultivation and Culture

Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, eds.

The Color of Their Skin

Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89

Robert A. Pratt

Power and the Praise Poem

South African Voices in History

Leroy Vail and Landeg White

Freedom Summer

Sally Belfrage