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Black Heritage and the Lowcountry: The Kiah-Law Archive and Other Regional Fascinations: Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Primary Sources

Adams, Nehemiah. Southside View of Slavery: Three Months at the South, in 1854. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969; orig. pub. 1854.
Allen D. Candler ed. The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia. Vol 4: Introduction to Reconstruction Records, General Orders Covering Reconstruction, 1867-1868. Atlanta: Chas P. Byrd, 1911.
Alvord, J.W. "Letters from the South, Relating to the Condition of Freedmen." Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1870.
Audiovisual Collection. Asa H. Gordon Library Special Collections, Savannah State University.
Ayers, Mary L., World War II Scrapbook. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 1121-120.
Beach Institute Historic Neighborhood Community Collection. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 1121-064.16.
Burke, Emily. Pleasure and Pain: Reminisces of Georgia in the 1840s. Savannah, Ga.: Beehive Press, 1991; orig. pub. 1850.
Butler Leigh, Frances. Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Calvin and Virginia Jackson Kiah Papers. Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections, Georgia Southern University. 240.
Chamerovzow, L. A., ed. Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave Now in New England. 2nd. ed. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries, 1971.
Cuyler-Brownville Community Collection. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 1121-064.08.
Eastside Neighborhood Documentation Project. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 6112-003.
Free Persons of Color Registers, 1780-1865. The Georgia Archive.
Gaines, Wesley. African Methodism in the South; Or, Twenty-five Years of Freedom. Chicago: Afro-American Press, 1969; orig. pub. 1890.
Haley, James T. Afro American Encyclopedia; Or the Thoughts Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures Biographical Sketches ... and Women. Nashville: Hailey and Florida, 1895.
Kiah House Museum Student Art Collection. Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections, Georgia Southern University. 231.
Leigh, Frances Butler. Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War, 1866-1876. Savannah, Ga.: Beehive Press, 1992; orig. pub. 1883.
Love, E.K. History of the First African Baptist Church, from Its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st 1888. Savannah Ga.: The Morning News Print, 1888.
Major Richard R. Wright, Sr. Collection, Asa H. Gordon Library Special Collections, Savannah State University.
Manuscript Collection. Asa H. Gordon Library Special Collections, Savannah State University.
Montgomery, Eugene A. The Georgia Negro. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. Rotating exhibit.
Pinpoint’s Residential Oral History Collection. Lane Library, Georgia Southern University. 965.
Realia Collection. Asa H. Gordon Library Special Collections, Savannah State University.
Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 105.
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia. National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 105.
Records of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, Savannah Branch. Records of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Record Group 101.
Report of the Commission on the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Dec. 1865, 39th Cong., 1st sess.. National Archives and Records Administration. House Executive Doc. No. 11.
Savannah State University Community Collection. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 1121-064.18.
Simms, James M. The First Colored Baptist Church in North America. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969; orig. pub. 1888.
Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir. New York: Arno Press, New York Times, 1968.
"The Banking Question and the Colored People" July 10, 1874; "A Hard Case—A Depositor of the Freedman's Bank Crazed by His Loss," Savannah Morning News, July 25, 1874; "The Freedman's Bank" Savannah Morning News, August 11, 1874.
The "Heros and Sheros" Room. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. Lower Level.
The "Meeting" Room. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. Second Floor, Classroom 1.
Thomson, Morrimer. "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation," African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from Daniel A. P. Murray Collection. (1818-1907), Library of Congress.
Tiger Scholar Commons. Asa H. Gordon Library Special Collections, Savannah State University.
University Queens Collections. Asa H. Gordon Library Special Collections, Savannah State University.
Waddie Welcome Collection. Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections, Georgia Southern University. 157.
West Broad Street: Black Business Empire. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. Second Floor Gallery.
Wright, Richard R. A Brief Historical Sketch of Negro Education In Georgia. Savannah Ga.: Robinson Printing, 1894.
W. W. Law Photograph Collection. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 1121-100.
W. W. Law Personal Papers. City of Savannah Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. 1121-112.

Secondary Sources

Baldwin, Frederick C. Freedom's March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2008.
Bailey, Anne C. The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Brooks, F. Erik. Tigers in the Tempest: Savannah State University and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2014.
Chireau, Yvonne P. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Cimbala, Paul A. Under The Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Creel, Margaret. "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs. New York: New York University Press 1988.
Denmark, Lisa L. "At the Midnight Hour: Economic Dilemmas and Harsh Realities in Post-Civil War Savannah." Georgia Historical Quarterly 90 (Fall 2006): 350-90.
Drago, Edmund L. "Militancy and Black Women in Reconstruction Georgia." Journal of American Culture 1 (Winter 1978): 838-44.
Fraser, Walter J., Jr. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
Hampton, Phillip J. Feels Like Freedom. Savannah, GA: Savannah State University Press, 1991.
Johnson, Whittington B. Black Savannah, 1788–1864. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
Jones, Jacqueline. Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Joyner, Charles. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
Morgan, Philip D., ed. African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Parrish, Lydia. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Pressly, Paul M. A Southern Underground Railroad. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Rabinowitz, Howard N. Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.
White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985.
Wood, Betty. Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Low Country. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.