Georgia Historical Society

NEH Landmarks in American History Workshop 2010 Reading List

Required reading (these books will be sent to all participants in advance of the workshop):

Erskine Clarke

Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic

(Yale University Press, 2005)

Annette Gordon-Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

(W.W. Norton, 2008)

Jacqueline Jones

Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War

(Knopf, 2008)

Cornelia Walker Bailey

God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island

(Doubleday, 2000)

Excerpts from the following (these will be sent to all participants in advance of the workshop as part of a coursepack)

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Harvard University Press, 1998)

Betty Wood, Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775 (University of Georgia Press, 1984)

Alexander X. Byrd, Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (Lousiana State University Press, 2008)

Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking, 2007)

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