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Selected books on African American History
These books are all available at SCU. Click on the links to see where they are located in the library.
African American History: An Introduction
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Children of Fire: a History of African Americans
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: a History
Cambridge Companion to African American Slave Narrative
Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expresions of Africa
The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860
African American Childhoods Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
Milestone Documents in African American History: Exploring the Essential Primary Sources
The first two volumes of this four-volume set includes analyses of primary source documents from 1619 to 1900.
How to Find More Books
The books above are just a sample of what we have.
Use OSCAR to find more books available at Santa Clara University. Some books are located in the Main Stacks on the Lower Level of the library. Other books are in the Automated Retrieval System (ARS). Be sure to check the location in OSCAR.
Enter keywords describing your topic. For example:
African American* and history
Slave Narratives
Slavery and Women and United States
Note: an asterisk at the end of word, for example slave*, will pick up different endings such as slave, slaves, slavery.
If you want to find books that include primary sources or documents, just add these keywords to your search. For example:
African American* and history and sources
Interlibrary Loan
If you search OSCAR for a paticular title and find out that Santa Clara doesn't own the book you are interested in, you can use:
LINK+, a service which allows students and faculty to borrow materials from member libraries at several other colleges and public libraries, provided that those materials are not available at the SCU libraries. Books borrowed through LINK+ should be available within 3 days.