Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Decision In Philadelphia, The Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Ballantine Books div. Random House, 1987; 4th reprint, New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
A narrative of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, which reads like a novel. Biographical detail of the Founding Fathers enhances the account.
Decision
in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. ed. Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Harriet A. Jacobs recounts her life as a slave in ante-bellum North Carolina, including her seven-year concealment in an attic before her escape to the North. Jean Fagan Yellin researched and substantiated Jacobs' account.
Xroads Virginia Education/Jacobs Home
Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison, A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1971; reprint, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Fascinating narrative of the life of James Madison. Ketcham includes the history of Virginia and the United States in his account.
McLaurin, Melton A. Celia, A Slave, A True Story. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991; reprint, New York: Avon Books, 1993.
Interesting case of a female slave in Missouri accused of murdering the master who repeatedly raped her. Exposes the inherent moral dilemmas of slavery and the contradiction in the legislation of people as property.
Randall, Willard Sterne. Thomas Jefferson, A Life. New York: Henry Holt and Company, A John Macrae Book, 1993.
Meticulously researched narrative of the life of Thomas Jefferson. Randall includes information on the family
'connections', which characterized Virginia politics, the history of Virginia and the United States.
