The Negro in the United States

The Negro in the United States
Author: Dorothy Porter Wesley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1860
Genre: Enslaved persons
ISBN:

This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.