
                                BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Other Literature Dealing with the Themes and Concepts of Beloved

     + denotes material probably intended for juvenile readers
     # denotes material probably intended for young adult readers
     @ denotes material probably intended for adult readers

End of Slavery and Beginning of Reconstruction

Nonfiction

     Meltzer, Milton. The Black Americans: A History in Their Own
     Words--1619-1983. # Harper & Row, 1984.

Fiction

     Hurmence, Belinda. Fancy. # New York: Clarion, 1984.

First Taste of Freedom

Nonfiction

     Lester, Julius. This Strange New Feeling. # New York, Dell, 1982;
     New York, Scholastic, 1985.

Fiction

     Fast, Howard. Freedom Road. @ New York: Crown, 1969; New York,
     AMSCO, 1970. Hurmence, Belinda. Tansy. # New York: Clarion, 1984.

     Rinaldi, Ann. Wolf by the Ears. # Scholastic, 1991.

Fugitive Slaves

Nonfiction

     Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
     An American Slave: Written by Himself. # Cambridge,
     Massachusetts, 1960; New York, NAL Signet, 1968. Originally
     published in 1845.

     Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a
     Fugitive Slave. + New York: Knopf, 1988.

     Sterling, Dorothy. Black Foremothers. # Old Westbury, New York:
     Feminist Press, 1979; New York, Feminist Press, 1988.

Fiction

     Smucker, Barbara. Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground
     Railroad. + New York: Harper & Row, 1977; New York: Harper
     Junior, 1979.

     Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. @ New York: NAL Signet
     Classic. Originally published in 1852.

     Hurmence, Belinda. A Girl Called Boy. + New York: Clarion, 1982.

Searching for Family Members

Fiction

     Hurmence, Belinda. Tansy. # New York: Clarion, 1984.

Slave Narratives

Nonfiction

     Bontemps, Arna. Great Slave Narratives. @ Boston: Beacon Press,
     1969.

     Davis, Charles T. and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ids. The Slaves's
     Narrative. @ New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

     Five Slave Narratives: A Compendium. (d' New York: Amo Press and
     the New York Times, 1968. Reprinted from copies in the
     MorlandSpingarn Collection, Howard University and at the New York
     Public Library.

     Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor. The Classic Slave Narratives. @
     New York: New American Library, 1987.

     Lester, Julius. To Be A Slave. # New York: I)ial, 1968; New York:
     Scholastic, 1986.

     Meltz.er, Milton. The Black Americans: A History in Their Own
     Words-1619-1984. # New York: HaTer & Row, 1984.

     Still, William. The Underground Railroard. @ Philadelphia: Porter
     & Coats, 1872. Reprinted by Arno Press and the New York Times,
     1968.

     Weld, Theodore. American Slaverv As It Is. Testimony of a
     Thousand Witnesses. @ New York: American Anti-Slavery Society,
     1839. Reprinted by Amo Press and the New York dimes, 1968.

Fiction based on Slave Narratives

     Hurmence, Belinda. A Girl Called Boy. + New York: Clarion, 1982.

     Hurmence, Belinda. Tancy. # New York: Clarion, 1984.

Slave Ships from Africa

Nonfiction

     Cable, Mary. Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad. @
     New York: Viking, 1971.

Fiction

     Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer. + Scarsdale, New York: Bradbury,
     1973.

     Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage. @ New York: Atheneum, 1990; New
     York: Plume, 1991.

Underground Railroad

Nonfiction

     Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad: First Person
     Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North. @ New York:
     Prentice Hall, 1987.

     Gaines, Ernest. J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. + New
     York: Bantam, 1982.

     Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
     An American Slave: Written by Himself. # Cambridge, MA, Harvard
     University Press, 1960. Originally published in 1845.

     Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground
     Railroad. + New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955; New York: Archway,
     1971.

     Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to
     Freedom. @ New York: Macmillan, 1898. Reprinted by Arno Press and
     the New York Times, 1968.

     Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: Porter &
     Coats, 1872. Reprinted by Arno Press and the New York Times,
     1968.

     Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. @ New York: Oxford
     University Press, 1969.

Fiction

     Smucker, Barbara. Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground
     Railway. + New York: Harper & Row, 1977; Harper Junior, 1979.

     Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. @ New York: NAL Signet
     Classic. Originally published in 1852.

Interviews with Toni Morrison

     Angelo, Bonnie. "The Pain of Being Black." # Time. May 22, 1989:
     120-122

Other Works by Toni Morrison

     Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Washington Street
     Printers, 1972; New York, NAL Signet, 1988.

     Morrison, Toni. Dreaming Emtnett. Play produced in 1986.

     Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York; Knopf, 1977; New York,
     NAL Signet, 1978.

     Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Knopf, 1974; New York, NAL, 1982.

     Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. New York: Knopf, 1981; NAL Signet,
     1982.

Selected Fiction by Other Contemporary Black Female Writers

     Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. # New York:
     Random House, 1970; New York: Bantam, 1971.

     Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. @ New York: Random
     House; 1959: New York: NAI. Signet, 1961.

     Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. + New York: Dial,
     1976; New York: Bantam, 1984.

     Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. @ New York: Harcourt Brace
     Jovanovich, 1982; New York: Washington Square Press, 1982.

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