• Gary Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of American Memory (Penn Press, 2002), chapter 5, “A City in Flux.”
  

• David Montgomery, “The Shuttle and the Cross: Weavers and Artisans in the Kensington Riots of 1844,” Journal of Social History Vol. 5, No. 4 (Summer 1972): 411-446.

• Emma Lapsansky, “Since They Got Those Separate Churches:” Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia,” American Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1. (Spring 1980): 54-78.

• Paul Johnson, “The Modernization of
  Mayo Greenleaf Patch,” New EnglandQuarterly 55:4 (December 1982):
  488-516.

• Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work:
  New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1994), Introduction & ch. 2 (excerpts).

• Bruce Dorsey, “Synopsis of the Avery/Cornell Murder Case,” Swarthmore College (History 48).

February 25, 2009
“The Material and Cultural Lives of Slaves”

• Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 161-209.

• Stephanie M.H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women & Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp. 12-34.

• Sharon Ann Musher, “Contesting `The Way the Almighty Wants It’: Crafting Memories of Ex-Slaves in the Slave Narrative Collection,” American Quarterly 55 (March 2001): 1-31.

• John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990; originally published by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978), pp. 20-26.