Jabarkan Penulisan sejarah dari Perbudakan di Amerika Serikat

Sejarawan Peter Kolchin, ketika menulis pada tahun 1993 melihat bahwa sampai ke dasawarsa-dasawarsa kemudian pada abad ke-20, para sejarawan terutama memperhatikan budaya, praktik dan ekonomi para pemilik budak, tidak dengan budak sendiri. Hal ini sebagian karena keadaan di mana para pemilik budak bisa membaca dan menulis, mereka jadi mewariskan catatan yang bisa kita baca, sementara para budak sebagian besar tidak bisa membaca dan menulis dan dengan ini tidak mampu meninggalkan catatan-catatan tertulis. Para pakar berbeda pendapat apakah perbudakan bisa dianggap sebagai sebuah perlembagaan yang baik atau yang "mengeksploitasai secara keras".

Banyak dari penulisan sejarah yang dilakukan sampai tahun 1950-an memiliki kecenderungan rasis. Pada tahun 1970-an dan 1980-an para sejarawan juga menggunakan jejak-jejak arkeologi, folkore orang berkulit hitam dan data-data statistik untuk mengembangkan sebuah gambaran yang lebih mendetail dan tidak mutlak hitam putih daripada kebudayaan perbudakan. Para individu digambarkan lebih menantang dan agak otonom dalam banyak aktivitas sehari-sehari mereka, tentu dalam batas kondisi mereka dan walaupun genting. Para sejarawan yang menulis dalam masa ini termasuk John Blassingame (Slave Community), Eugene Genovese (Roll, Jordan, Roll), Leslie Howard Owens (This Species of Property), dan Herbert Gutman (The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom).

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Fogel, Robert W. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery W.W. Norton, 1989. Econometric approach

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Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Pantheon Books, 1974.

Genovese, Eugene D. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South (1967)

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Hahn, Steven. "The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War." Southern Spaces (2004)

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Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. (1998) ISBN 0-394-52778-X.

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Mason, Matthew. Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. (2006) ISBN 978-0-8078-3049-9.

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Moore, Wilbert Ellis, American Negro Slavery and Abolition: A Sociological Study, Ayer Publishing, 1980

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia  W.W. Norton, 1975.

Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860 University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. (1982) ISBN 0-393-31705-6.

Ransom, Roger L. Was It Really All That Great to Be a Slave? Agricultural History, Vol. 48, No. 4 (October 1974)

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Scarborough, William K. The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South (1984)

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956) Survey

Stampp, Kenneth M. "Interpreting the Slaveholders' World: a Review." Agricultural History 1970 44(4): 407–12. ISSN 0002-1482

Tadman, Michael. Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Wright, W. D. Historians and Slavery; A Critical Analysis of Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery and Other Recent Works Washington, D.C.: University Press of America (1978)

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Fields, Barbara J. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century Yale University Press, 1985.

Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen; Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History Greenwood Press, 2004

Jennison, Watson W. Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860 (University Press of Kentucky; 2012)

Kulikoff, Alan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800 University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Minges, Patrick N.; Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855–1867 2003 deals with Indian slave owners.

Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Mooney, Chase C. Slavery in Tennessee Indiana University Press, 1957.

Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790 Cornell University Press, 1998.

Reidy, Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South, Central Georgia, 1800–1880 University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Ripley, C. Peter. Slaves and Freemen in Civil War Louisiana Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation University Press of Florida, 2000.

Sellers, James Benson; Slavery in Alabama University of Alabama Press, 1950

Sydnor, Charles S. Slavery in Mississippi. 1933

Takagi, Midori. Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865 University Press of Virginia, 1999.

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Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion W.W. Norton & Company, 1974.