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. Older studies will, however, still use "slave" as a term

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

For your skilled trade, we'll try blackmith*

Example Search:

(enslaved OR enslavement OR slave*)
and
blacksmith*

Books

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

(enslaved OR enslavement OR slave*)
and
Blacksmith*

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 The Many Faces of Slavery ;  In his own words ; Crafting Lives

Using primary source collections in our Civil War Era Databases and slavery databases, try basic searches like: "negro Blacksmith" OR "slave Blacksmith" OR "Enslaved Blacksmith" OR "black Blacksmith"