• General Surveys
• Books about Slave Insurrections
• Books about Individual Slave Insurrections
• Journal Articles and Secondary Sources
• Online and Electronic Resources

General Surveys

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. H31.C7 no. 501

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. A Social History of the American Negro. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1921.

Carroll, Joseph Cephas. Slave Insurrections in the United States: 1800-1865. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. E447.C27 1968

Coffin, Joshua. An Account of some of the Principal Slave Insurrections…During the Last Two Centuries. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.

Genovese, Eugene. “Slave Revolts in Hemispheric Perspective” in From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979: 1-50.

Genovese, Eugene. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. HT1048.G43

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts. New York: De Capo Press, 1998. E447.H53 1998

Slave Insurrections: Selected Documents. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970. E447.S57 1970

Books about Slave Insurrections

Slave Insurrections: History and Sources

Books about Individual Slave Insurrections

Denmark Vesey

Gabriel Prosser

Nat Turner

New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741

Stono Rebellion

Slave Insurrections—New York

Slave Insurrections—South Carolina

Slave Insurrections—Virginia

Slave Insurrections—United States

Journal Articles and Secondary Sources

America History & Life

Black Studies Center

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the
         Present

Humanities Index

JSTOR

Social Science Index

Other Databases and Indexes

Online and Electronic Resources

African-American History: Library of Congress American Memory

Africans in America: 1791-1831

Africans in America: Stono Rebellion

Africans in America: Vesey Conspiracy

Africans in America: Gabriel’s Conspiracy

Africans in America: Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Black Studies Center

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the
         Present

Documenting the American South: The Confessions of Nat Turner

Library of Virginia: Gabriel’s Conspiracy

Library of Virginia: Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Making of America: University of Michigan Digital Library

Making of America: Cornell University Digital Library

Project Gutenberg

Slavery and The Courts: 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)

Horsmanden, Daniel. The New York conspiracy; or, a history of the negro plot, with the journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New York in the years 1741-2.