Smith College Libraries Class Guides - HST371: African American Women in Slavery and Freedom

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Words & People

Oxford English Dictionary
The major English-language covering both historical and current usage.
American National Biography
Reliable scholarly biographies of major figures in American history.
The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States
Call number: ref E 184.A1 H466 1997

Encyclopedias

Use these sources for background information and a list of suggested readings. This list is selective; please ask at the reference desk for other suggestions.

Black women in America (3 vols.)
Call Number: SC Neilson Reference/1 North ; E 185.86 .B542 2005
Included in Oxford African American Studies Center - see link below.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Includes all articles from these core reference works (in addition to drawing from other sources): Black Women in America; African American National Biography; Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; and Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas (6 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185 .E54 2006
Encyclopedia of African American Society (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 185 .E546 2005
The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide.
Call Number: ref E 184.65 .A37 2001
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref DT 16.5 .E53 2008
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia (2 vols.)
Call Number: ref E 441 .S635 2007
Encyclopedia of American Social History (3 vols.)
Call Number: ref HN 57 .E58 1993