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The African-American Genealogy Pathfinder
Background Slave Trade Revolutionary War Civil War Indian War World War I World War II	This section lists all the available materials geared towards the background and history of African-Americans--including the slave trade (slavery) and historical wars--that are located at the Milwaukee Public Library and on the web for you to use for your African-American genealogical search. The call numbers (Dewey Classification numbers) are provided to make locating these materials easy.
	Background
	African American World This site, created by PBS (Public Broadcasting System) is "Your guide to African American history and culture. From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence, discover the courage and talent that shaped the African American experience." The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture--An Illustrated Reference by Molefi K. Asante and Mark T. Mattson. African Americans [video recording] Produced by Andrew Schlessinger. Return to top
	Slave Trade
	The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation by Wilma A. Dunaway. The African Slave Trade From the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. Reports and papers of the meeting of experts organized by Unesco at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 31 January to 4 February 1978. The American Slave-Trade; An Account of its Origin, Growth and Suppression by John R. Spears, illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. The Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein. Black Cargo by Richard Howard. Black Cargoes; A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865 by Daniel P. Mannix in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley. Black Mother; The Years of the African Slave Trade, 1st American ed. by Basil Davidson. Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography, 1865-1980 compiled by John David Smith; foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams. Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas. Smithsonian Institution Press. A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave compiled by Howard E. Potts; foreword by Charles Joyner. Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan; illustrations by James Ransome. Freedom's Children: The Journey From Emancipation into the Twentieth Century by Velma Maia Thomas. Great Britain and the Slave Trade, 1839-1865 by William Law Mathieson. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. Compiled from authentic materials by W. O. Blake. Ship of Slaves : The Middle Passage [video recording] produced by Christen Harty Schaefer; A&E Television. The Slave Trade by Anne Mountfield. [Children's collection] Slavery in America; The Heritage of Slavery by Robert Liston. [Children's collection] Slave Ancestral Research: It's Something Else by Mary L. Jackson Fears. The Slavery Reader edited by Gad Heuman and James Walvin. A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 by Bruce L. Mouser. The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African-American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past by Michael H. Cottman. Return to top
	Revolutionary War
	Afro-Americans '76: Black Americans in the Founding of Our Nation written and illustrated by Eugene Winslow. Black Courage, 1775-1783: Documentation of Black Participation in the American Revolution by Robert Ewell Greene. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution by Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. Blacks in the American Revolution by Philip S. Foner. The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles. Return to top
	Civil War
	Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen During the Civil War by Howard C. Westwood. Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Wilbert L. Jenkins. Marching Toward Freedom: Blacks in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union by James M. McPherson. Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War by Ira Berlin, et al. Worth Fighting For; A History of the Negro in the United States During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Agnes McCarthy and Lawrence Reddick. Illustrated by Colleen Browning. [Children's collection] Return to top
	Indian War
	African Americans on the Western Frontier edited with an introduction by Monroe Lee Billington and Roger D. Hardaway. Buffalo Gordon: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Nate Gordon From Louisiana Slave to Buffalo Soldier by J.P. Sinclair Lewis. The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877 by Paul H. Carlson. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West by William H. Leckie, with Shirley A. Leckie. Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier by Phillip Thomas Tucker. On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier II: New and Revised Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 compiled and edited by Irene Schubert, Frank N. Schubert. Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West edited by Frank N. Schubert. Return to top
	World War I
	From Harlem to the Rhine; The Story of New York's Colored Volunteers by Arthur W. Little. Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I by Stephen L. Harris; foreword by Rod Raschall. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War; a complete and authentic narration, from official sources, of the participation of American soldiers of the Negro race in the world war for democracy; a full account of the war work organizations of colored men and women and other civilian activities, including the Red cross, the YMCA., the YWCA and the War camp community service, with official summary of treaty of peace and League of Nations covenant. Prefaced with highest tributes to the American Negro by Hon. Newton D. Baker, Gen. John J. Pershing, and the late Theodore Roosevelt. Two Colored Women With the American Expeditionary Forces by Addie W. Hunton, Kathryn M. Johnson and William Alphaeus Hunton: A Pioneer Prophet of Young Men by Addie W. Hunton; introduction by Adele Logan Alexander. Return to top
	World War II
	The 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion in World War II: An Illustrated History of the First African American Armored Unit to See Combat by Joe Wilson, Jr.; foreword by Julius W. Becton, Jr.; afterward by Joseph E. Wilson, Sr. Jefferson, N.C. African Americans and WW II by Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History: 50th Anniversary of World War Commemoration Committee, Washington, D.C., c1994. The Afro-American and the Second World War by Neil A. Wynn. Black Americans in World War II by A. Russell Buchanan. Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II by Hondon B. Hargrove. Fighting for America: Black Soldiers--The Unsung Heroes of World War II by Christopher Paul Moore. The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II compiled and edited by Mary Penick Motley; with a foreword by Howard Donovan Queen. The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943 by Richard E. Miller. The Tuskegee Airmen; The Story of the Negro in the U.S. Air Force by Charles E. Francis. The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History by William E. Griggs; edited by Philip J. Merrill; with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley. Return to top

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