Bibliography
ALFORD, TERRY. Prince among Slaves (1977). Excellent research and wonderful writing—the definitive account of the life of Adb Rahman Ibrahima.
AUSTIN, ALLAN D. African Muslims in Antebellum America (1997). A comprehensive history of Muslim slaves in America.
BARRY, BOUBACAR. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade (1998). The slave trade and the rise of Islam in the region that includes Ibrahima’s homeland.
BLASSINGAME, JOHN W. The Slave Community (1972). Description of slave society based largely on slave narratives.
CURTIN, PHILIP D. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (1967). Accounts by and about slaves, including Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, describing their experience in Africa and America.
GENOVESE, EUGENE D. Roll, Jordon, Roll (1975). Describes a “black nation” in the Old South based on familial and religious ties.
GUTMAN, HERBERT G. Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1976). Extensive analysis of the black family.
HOGAN, WILLIAM RANSOM, AND EDWIN ADAMS DAVIS. William Johnson’s Natchez (2 vols. 1951). The remarkable diary of a wealthy free black in antebellum Natchez.
KOLCHIN, PETER. American Slavery, 1619–1877 (1993). Comprehensive history of the development of slavery in the United States.
LEVINE, LAWRENCE W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness (1977). Survival of African culture in black America.
MARTIN, JONATHAN D. Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (2004). Argues that most slaves were hired out at some point during their lives and describes the hiring-out practice.
WEST, EMILY. Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South (2004). Like Ibrahima and Isabella, many other slave couples forged strong marital bonds despite the obstacles imposed by their enslavement.
ALFORD, TERRY. Prince among Slaves (1977). Excellent research and wonderful writing—the definitive account of the life of Adb Rahman Ibrahima.
AUSTIN, ALLAN D. African Muslims in Antebellum America (1997). A comprehensive history of Muslim slaves in America.
BARRY, BOUBACAR. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade (1998). The slave trade and the rise of Islam in the region that includes Ibrahima’s homeland.
BLASSINGAME, JOHN W. The Slave Community (1972). Description of slave society based largely on slave narratives.
CURTIN, PHILIP D. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (1967). Accounts by and about slaves, including Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, describing their experience in Africa and America.
GENOVESE, EUGENE D. Roll, Jordon, Roll (1975). Describes a “black nation” in the Old South based on familial and religious ties.
GUTMAN, HERBERT G. Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1976). Extensive analysis of the black family.
HOGAN, WILLIAM RANSOM, AND EDWIN ADAMS DAVIS. William Johnson’s Natchez (2 vols. 1951). The remarkable diary of a wealthy free black in antebellum Natchez.
KOLCHIN, PETER. American Slavery, 1619–1877 (1993). Comprehensive history of the development of slavery in the United States.
LEVINE, LAWRENCE W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness (1977). Survival of African culture in black America.
MARTIN, JONATHAN D. Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (2004). Argues that most slaves were hired out at some point during their lives and describes the hiring-out practice.
WEST, EMILY. Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South (2004). Like Ibrahima and Isabella, many other slave couples forged strong marital bonds despite the obstacles imposed by their enslavement.
