HIST 100 Beyond the Plantation (Spring 2024)

ARTICLES

In Secondary Literature, historians now use "enslaved" instead of slave to reflect the humanity of the individuals held in bondage. 

For this reason, we use enslaved or enslavement as search terms. 

For your skilled trade, we'll try seamstress* OR tailor* OR weaver*

Example Search:

Books

Using the main library catalog, we'll try a similar search. Limiting to books and ebooks, let's try

(enslaved OR enslavement)
and
seamstress* OR tailor* OR weaver*

Example Search:

NOTE that many of the book titles don't immediately look related to your topic. BUT when you look inside, you'll find chapters and sections about your topic. For example, see An intimate economy : enslaved women, work, and America's domestic slave trade

Using primary source collections in our Civil War Era Databases and slavery databases, try basic searches like: "negro weaver" OR "enslaved weaver" OR "negro tailor" OR "enslaved tailor" OR "negro seamstress" OR "enslaved seamstress" OR "black weaver" OR "black tailor" OR "black seamstress"