Readings

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003)

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, reprint, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, 2nd ed. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003)

Dickson Preston, Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980)

T. Stephen Whitman, Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775–1865, (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007)

Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003)

Challenging Slavery in Maryland and the Chesapeake, 1775–1870: A Guide and Bibliography, prepared by Dr. Stephen Whitman, Mount St. Mary's University