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Footsteps to Freedom Dr. Walker’s Lectures
Reading List:
– African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection — Katherine Coryton White
– American Negro Slavery – Alexander M’Leod and Ulrich Bonnell
– American Negro Slave Revolts
– American Slavery American Freedom – Edmund S. Morgan
– Benito Cereno – Herman Melville
– Black Family in Slavery — Herbert Gutman
– Black Issues in Higher Education
– Black Majority — Peter H. Wood
– Black Society in Spanish Florida – Jane Landers
– Black Women in Whites – Darlene Clark Hine
– Blues People: Negro Music in White America – Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
– Born a Child of Freedom Yet a Slave- Norrece T. Jones, Jr.
– Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest 1492-1650 – Noble David Cook
– Capitalism and Slavery – Eric Williams
– Catching Sense – Patricia Guthrie
– Color Adjustment (documentary) – Marlon T. Riggs
– Destruction of California Indians — Robert Heizer
– Destruction of the Indies – Bartolome de Las Casas
– Drums and Shadows – Mary Granger
– Econocide – Seymour Drescher
– Epic of old Mali
– Exchanging our country marks – Michael Gomez
– Faces at the Bottom of the Well – Derrick Bell
– Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
– Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl- Harriet Jacobs
– Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
– Life in a Black Regiment – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
– Making of the English Working Class – EP Thompson
– Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer – James L. Swanson
– Many Thousands Gone – Ira Berlin
– Mismeasure of a Man – Stephen Jay Gould
– Motherwit, an Alabama Midwife’s Story – Onnie Lee Logan
– Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Douglass Family Edition)
– Nigger Heaven — Carl Van Vechten
– No More No More – Dr. Daniel Walker
– Orientalism – Edward Said
– Parting of the Waters – Taylor Branch
– People’s History of America – Howard Zinn
– Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave – Daniel C. Littlefield
– Scenes of Subjection – Saidiya V. Hartman
– Slave Community – John Blassingame
– Slave Culture – Sterling Stuckey
– Slave Trade Census
– Slavery and Social Death – Orlando Patterson
– Slavery by Another Name — Douglas Blackmon
– Slavery Voyages – (website)
– Slavery: A Quantitative Study (chapter in book) – Stanley
– Slaves Without Masters – Ira Berlin
– Sweetness and Power – Sidney Mintz
– Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
– The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave- Esteban Montejo
– The Common Wind – Julius Scott
– The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron
– The Creation of Patriarchy- Gerta Lerner
– The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
– The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano – Gustavus Vassa
– The Making of the English Working Class — E.P. Thompson
– The Negro in the American Revolution – Benjamin Quarles
– They Came Before Columbus, Ivan Van Sertima
– Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks – Donald Bogle
– Trade in Colonial South Carolina – Daniel C. Littlefield
– Types of Mankind – Josiah C. Nott
– Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism – Joseph Miller
– White Over Black: Americans Attitudes Toward the Negro – Winford Jordan
Resources:
100% of tuition: http://blog.collegegreenlight.com/blog/colleges-that-meet-100-of-student-financial-need/
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Douglass Family Edition): https://bookshop.org/p/books/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglas-frederick-douglass/19069724?ean=9781637631706