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Bibliography of slavery in the United States

The Bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to the books, papers, pamphlets, and other published materials covering the history of slavery in the U.S., from its colonial origins through the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which officially abolished the practice. In addition, the bibliography provides a sampling of notable books and papers on issues that emerged from the shadow of slavery, including Reconstruction, racism, civil rights, the Great Migration,and reparations. For more complete listings of works tied to these peripheral topics, refer to the specific articles and bibliographies elsewhere in Wikipedia.

21st century publications

• Adams, Catherine; Pleck, Elizabeth (2010). Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538909-8.
• Allain, Jean (2012). The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199660469.
• Andrews, William L.; Mason, Regina E., eds. (2008). Five Black Lives. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534331-1.
• Anyabwile, Thabiti M. (2007). The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. ISBN 978-1-58134-827-9.
• Andrews, William L. (2019). Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190908393.
• Araujo, Ana Lucia (2017). Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-3500-1059-8.
• Armstead, Myra Beth Young (2012). Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-0510-0.
• Arthur, John (2007). Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87937-8.
• Ashton, Susanna (2010). I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-900-3.
• Ayers, Edward L. (2003). In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-05786-0.
• —— (2017). The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-29263-3.
• Bailyn, Bernard (2012). The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-51570-0.
• Baptist, Edward E.; Camp, Stephanie M.H., eds. (2006). New Studies in the History of American Slavery. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2563-7.
• —— (2014). The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-00296-2.
• Beckert, Sven (2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5.
• ——; Rockman, Seth, eds. (2016). Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4841-8.
• Bell, Karen Cook (2021). Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-83154-3.
• Berlin, Ira (2003). Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01061-2.
• ——; Harris, Leslie M., eds. (2005). Slavery in New York. New York: New Press. ISBN 1-56584-997-3.
• Berry, Daina Ramey (2010). Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03146-5.
• Blackburn, Robin (2011). The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. London; New York: Verso. ISBN 978-1-84467-569-2.
• Blackmon, Douglas A. (2008). Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-50625-0.
• Blair, William A.; Younger, Karen Fisher, eds. (2009). Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3316-2.
• Blight, David W., ed. (2004). Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. ISBN 1-58834-157-7.
• —— (2007). Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom: Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-15-101232-9.
• —— (2020) [2018]. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416590316. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2019
• Blumrosen, Alfred W.; Blumrosen, Ruth G. (2005). Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4022-0697-9.
• Bogues, Anthony; Cliatt, Cass; Levy, Allison, eds. (2021) [2006]. Slavery and Justice Report (PDF). Providence, RI: Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
• Boles, John B. (2015). Black Southerners, 1619–1869. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-5786-3.
• Boritt, Gabor S.; Hancock, Scott (2007). Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538460-4.
• Bracey, John H., Jr.; Sinha, Manisha (2004). African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century, Volume One: To 1877. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-092287-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Brady, Steven J. (2022). Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501761058.
• Braxton, Joanne; Diedrich, Maria I., eds. (2004). Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery and Memory. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 3-8258-7230-0.
• Brewster, Todd (2014). Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4516-9386-7.
• Brooks, Roy (2004). Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23941-5.
• Brophy, Alfred L. (2006). Reparations: Pro & Con. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530408-4.
• Bruce, Dickson (2001). The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-2066-3.
• Burke, Diane Mutti (2010). On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815–1865. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3636-7.
• Bynum, Victoria E. (2016) [2001]. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2.
• Byrd, W. Michael; Clayton, Linda A. (2000). An American Health Dilemma, Volume I: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race, Beginnings to 1900. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92449-9.
• ——; —— (2002). An American Health Dilemma: Volume II: Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States, 1900-2000. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92737-4.
• Campbell, Gwyn; Elbourne, Elizabeth, eds. (2014). Sex, Power, and Slavery. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-4490-0.
• Campbell, James M. (2013). Crime and Punishment in African American History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-27380-1.
• Capitani, Diane N. (2009). Truthful Pictures: Slavery Ordained by God in the Domestic Sentimental Novel of the Nineteenth-Century South. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-1232-8.
• Carnahan, Burrus M. (2007). Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2463-6.
• Carney, Judith A.; Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas (2009). In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25750-4.
• Castillo, Susan; Schweitzer, Ivy, eds. (2001). The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-631-21124-1.
• Childers, Christopher (2012). The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1868-2.
• Clavin, Matthew J. (2019). The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479811106.
• Coddon, Karin (2004). Black Abolitionists. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press. ISBN 0-7377-1711-4.
• Cooley, Thomas (2001). The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-284-4.
• Cooper, Frederick; Scott, Rebecca J.; Holt, Thomas C. (2000). Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2541-7.
• Cooper, William J., Jr.; McCardell, John M., Jr., eds. (2009). In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3444-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Countryman, Edward (2012). Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-0028-9.
• Cowie, Jefferson (2022). Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9781541672819. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2023
• Crew, Spencer R.; Bunch, Lonnie G. III; Price, Clement A., eds. (2015). Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. ISBN 978-1-4408-3778-4.
• Currie, Stephen (2011). African American Literature. Detroit, MI: Lucent Books, Gale, Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-4205-0383-8.
• Cutter, Martha J. (2017). The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820351162.
• Daly, John Patrick (2002). When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2241-4.
• Davis, David Brion (2006). Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514073-6.
• DeGruy, Joy (2017) [2005]. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PDF). Joy DeGruy Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9852172-0-4.
• Dew, Charles B. (2017) [2001]. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-3943-8.
• Diène, Doudou, ed. (2001). From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited. New York: Berghahn Book. ISBN 1-57181-265-2.
• Domingues da Silva, Daniel B. (2017). The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-17626-3.
• Dottin, Paul Anthony (2002). The End of Race as We Know It: Slavery, Segregation, and the African American Quest for Redress. Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University. ISBN 9780493912769.
• Dunaway, Wilma A. (2003). Slavery in the American Mountain South. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81275-5.
• Dunbar, Erica Armstrong (2017). Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. New York: 37 Ink/Atria. ISBN 978-1-5011-2639-0.
• Egerton, Douglas R. (2009). Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530669-9.
• Eltis, David (2000). The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65231-6.
• Ely, Melvin Patrick (2004). Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-44738-5.
• Engerman, Stanley L. (2007). Slavery, Emancipation & Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3236-4.
• Farrow, Anne (2006). Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-46783-3.
• Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2002). Slavery & The Law. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-945612-36-2.
• —— (2010). In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (for the United States Capitol Historical Society). ISBN 978-0-8214-1934-2.
• ——; Kennon, Donald R., eds. (2010). In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1934-2.
• Foner, Eric, ed. (2017) [2005]. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Volume 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-60339-2.
• ——, ed. (2017) [2005]. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Volume 2. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-61549-4.
• ——, ed. (2014) [2005]. Give Me Liberty! AP Edition, 2014 Update: An American History (2 volumes combined). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-26340-4.
• ——; Brown, Joshua (2005). Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40259-4.
• —— (2010). The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06618-0. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2011
• —— (2015). Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-35219-1.
• —— (2016). The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18137-1.
• —— (2019). The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0393652581.
• Forret, Jeff; Sears, Catherine E., eds. (2015). New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6115-9.
• Foster, Thomas (2019). Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820355221.
• Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth; Genovese, Eugene D. (2005). The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-61562-3.
• Frederickson, Mary E.; Walters, Delores M. (2013). Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03790-0.
• Gallay, Alan (2002). The Indian Slave Trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08754-3.
• ——, ed. (2009). Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2200-7.
• Gardner, Eric, ed. (2005). Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery. London: The Toby Press. ISBN 1-59264-118-0.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. (2009). Lincoln on Race and Slavery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14234-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Gellman, David Nathaniel (2006). Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University. ISBN 978-0-8071-3174-9.
• Genovese, Eugene D.; Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (2011). Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01164-9.
• Gerbner, Katharine (2018). Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812294903.
• Glymph, Thavolia (2008). Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87901-9.
• Goldstone, Lawrence (2005). Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution. New York: Walker & Company. ISBN 0-8027-1460-9.
• Gomez, Michael (2005). Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80662-3.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette (2008). The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Pulizer Prize for History, 2009
• Grindal, Peter (2016). Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78453-387-8.
• Grover, Kathryn (2001). The Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-271-2.
• Guelzo, Allen C. (2004). Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-2182-6.
• Hahn, Steven (2003). A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01169-4. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2004
• Hakim, Ida, ed. (2005). The Debtors: Whites Respond to the Call for Black Reparations. Red Oak, GA: Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation (CORE). ISBN 0-9765909-0-5.
• Halpern, Rick; Dal Lago, Enrico, eds. (2002). Slavery and Emancipation. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-631-21734-7.
• Hammond, John Craig; Mason, Matthew, eds. (2011). Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-3105-0.
• Hanks, Stephen (2019). Twenty Africans: Their Story, and Discovery of Their Black, Red, & White Descendants. Portland, OR: Inkwater Press. ISBN 978-1629016573.
• Hardesty, Jared Ross (2018). Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-0184-8.
• Harley, Sharon; The Black Women and Work Collective, eds. (2002). Sister Circle: Black Women and Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3060-1.
• Harris, J. William (2009). The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man’s Encounter with Liberty. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15214-2.
• Harrold, Stanley (2001). American Abolitionists. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-35738-1.
• Hashaw, Tim (2007). The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-1718-7.
• Haskell, Alexander B. (2017). For God, King and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia). ISBN 9781469618029.
• Henry, Charles P. (2007). Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3692-0.
• Heywood, Linda; John, Thornton (2007). Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77065-1.
• Hinks, Peter; McKivigan, John, eds. (2015). Abolition and Antislavery: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, LLC. ISBN 978-1-61069-827-6.
• Hodges, Graham Russell (2015). Slavery, Freedom & Culture among Early American Workers. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7656-0112-5.
• Hoffer, Peter Charles (2003). The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1245-1.
• Holzer, Harold, ed. (2006). Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2686-0.
• —— (2012). Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America. New York: Newmarket Press for ItBooks. ISBN 978-0-06-226511-1.
• —— (2015). A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American Opportunity. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02830-6.
• Horn, James (2018). Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465064694.
• Horne, Gerald (2007). The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3.
• Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. (2005). Slavery and the Making of America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517903-X.
• Hudson, J. Blaine (2006). Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-2459-7.
• Jennison, Watson W. (2012). Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3426-0.
• Jewett, Clayton E.; Allen, John O. (2004). Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32019-5.
• Johnson, Mat (2007). The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-58234-099-9.
• Johnson, Walter (2013). River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04555-2.
• Jones, Jacqueline; Wood, Peter H.; Borstelmann, Thomas; May, Elaine Tyler; Ruiz, Vicki L., eds. (2017) [2011]. Created Equal: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-13-410198-9.
• ——; ——; ——; ——; ——, eds. (2017) [2011]. Created Equal: A History of the United States, Volume II: Since 1865. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-13-410199-6.
• Jones, Martha S. (2018). Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107150348.
• Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. (2019). They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-21866-4.
• Kachun, Mitch (2003). Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808–1915. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-407-3.
• Kaplan, Fred (2017). Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-244000-6.
• Kingsley, Zephaniah (2000). Stowell, Daniel W. (ed.). Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813017334.
• Kiple, Kenneth F.; King, Virginia Himmeisteib (2003). Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23664-9.
• Klein, Herbert S. (2010). The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-18250-8.
• Kly, Yussuf Naim, ed. (2006). The Invisible War: The African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, Inc.
• Knight, K.I. (2019). Unveiled, the Twenty & Odd: Documenting the First Africans in England's America 1619-1625 and Beyond. Clermont, FL: First Freedom Publishing LLC. ISBN 9781733807708.
• Kranz, Rachel (2004). African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-5101-1.
• Lander, James (2010). Lincoln & Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science, and Religion. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2990-8.
• Larson, Edward J. (2023). American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-88220-9.
• Lewis, Catherine M.; Lewis, J. Richard (2011). Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History. Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-957-5.
• Linebaugh, Peter; Rediker, Marcus (2000). The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-5006-7.
• Lopenzina, Drew (2012). Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-3979-2.
• —— (2017). Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781625342584.
• Maltz, Earl M. (2010). Fugitive Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1735-7.
• Mancall, Peter, ed. (2018). The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624. Chapel Hill, NC. ISBN 978-1-4384-3979-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder (2012). Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4987-3.
• Martin, Joan M. (2000). More Than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0-664-25800-X.
• Martínez, Jenny S. (2012). The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539162-6.
• Mason, Matthew (2006). Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3049-9.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick; Stauffer, John, eds. (2006). Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism. New York: New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-992-1.
• McDaniel, W. Caleb (2019). Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-3979-2. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2020
• McGinty, Brian (2017). The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-1-63149-301-0.
• McInnis, Maurie D.; Nelson, Louis P., eds. (2019). Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University. Athens, GA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0813942865.
• McKissack, Pat (2004). Hard Labor: The First African Americans. New York: Alladin Paperbacks. ISBN 0-689-86149-4.
• Miles, Tiya (2005). Ties That Bind: The story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24132-0.
• Minges, Patrick N. (2003). Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855–1867. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94586-0.
• ——, ed. (2006). Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher. ISBN 978-0-89587-323-1.
• Monroe, James A. (2003). Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. New Haven,CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09484-1.
• Morgan, Kenneth O. (2000). Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607–1800. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 1-85331-210-X.
• Morgan, Marcyliena (2002). Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00149-6.
• Mulroy, Kevin (2016). The Seminole Freedmen: A History. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3865-7.
• Nash, Gary B. (2007). Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN 0-87338-565-9.
• Nellis, Eric Guest (2013). Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888. New York: University of Toronto Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4426-0764-4.
• Newman, Richard; Rael, Patrick; Lapsansky, Philip, eds. (2001). Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92443-X.
• —— (2008). Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5826-7.
• Nunley, Tamika Y. (2021). At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469662213.
• O'Malley, Gregory E. (2014). Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia). ISBN 978-1-4696-1534-9.
• Oakes, James (2007). The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06194-9.
• —— (2013). Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06531-2.
• —— (2014). The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-23993-5.
• —— (2021). The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 9781324005865.
• Painter, Nell Irvin (2002). Southern History Across the Color Line. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2692-8.
• —— (2007). Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513756-9.
• —— (2010). The History of White People. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-04934-3.
• Paquette, Robert L.; Smith, Mark M., eds. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-922799-0.
• Paradis, James M. (2005). African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5030-3.
• Parish, Peter J. (2022). Slavery: History and Historians. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. ISBN 0-06-437001-1.
• Patton, Venetria K. (2000). Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-4343-4.
• Phillips, Patrick (2016). Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0393293012.
• Pinto, Samantha (2020). Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 9781478009283.
• Proenza-Coles, Christina (2019). American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. Montgomery, AL: New South Books. ISBN 9781588383310.
• Rael, Patrick (2015). Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3395-3.
• Rasmussen, Daniel (2011). American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-199521-7.
• Rediker, Marcus B. (2007). The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-01823-9.
• —— (2012). The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02504-6.
• —— (2014). Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-3410-1.
• —— (2017). The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist. London: Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78663-472-6.
• Reséndez, Andrés (2016). The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0544947108.
• Rivers, Larry Eugene (2000). Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1813-7.
• Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. (2007). Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc. ISBN 978-1-85109-544-5.
• ——, ed. (2007). Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.
• ——, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Volume 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-33272-X.
• ——, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Volume 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-33273-8.
• ——, ed. (2015) [2007]. Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, Vols. 1-3. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7656-1257-1.
• Root, Erik S. (2008). All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good Thesis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-2217-4.
• Rothman, Joshua D. (2003). Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Interracial Relationships Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2768-0.
• Roundtree, Helen (2006). Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2596-7.
• Rucker, Walter C. (2006). The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-3109-1.
• Rugemer, Edward Bartlett (2008). The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3338-5.
• Saillant, John (2003). Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515717-6.
• Satre, Lowell J. (2005). Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. ISBN 0-8214-1625-1.
• Schafer, Daniel L. (2003). Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2616-4.
• —— (2013). Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0813044626.
• Schama, Simon (2006). Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. New York: HarperCollins Pubishers. ISBN 978-0-06-053916-0.
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (2018). Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02766-4.
• Schermerhorn, Jack Lawrence; Schermerhorn, Calvin (2015). The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1.
• Schneider, Dorothy; Schneider, Carl J. (2000). Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-3863-5.
• Schwartz, Marie Jenkins (2000). Born in Bondage:Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00162-1.
• Sinha, Manisha (2016). The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18208-8. Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
• Small, Stephen; Eichstedt, Jennifer (2002). Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-58834-071-6.
• Smallwood, Stephanie E. (2007). Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to the American Diaspora. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02349-9.
• Smith, Clint (2021). How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316492935.
• Smithers, Gregory D. (2012). Slave Breeding : Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-4238-1.
• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2008). The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations, Vol. 1. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-8093-8.
• ——, ed. (2015). The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History, Volume 1. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7656-8257-4.
• ——, ed. (2015). The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History, Volume 2. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7656-8257-4.
• Snyder, Christina (2010). Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04890-4.
• Snyder, Terri L. (2015). The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-28056-1.
• Sommerville, Diane Miller (2004). Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-5560-X.
• Sowell, Thomas (2005). Black Rednecks and White Liberals. New York: Encounter Books. ISBN 1-59403-086-3.
• Sparks, Randy (2004). The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01312-3.
• Stark, Rodney (2003). For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-hunts, and the End of Slavery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11436-6.
• Stauffer, John (2008). Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. New York: Twelve. ISBN 978-0-446-54300-2.
• Striner, Richard (2006). Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518306-1.
• Sturm, Circe (2002). Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23097-2.
• Sublette, Ned; Sublette, Constance (2016). The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-61374-820-6.
• Taylor, Alan (2013). The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07371-3. Pulitzer Prize for History, 2014
• Torpey, John (2006). Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01943-1.
• Tsesis, Alexander (2004). The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-8276-0.
• —— (2008). We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11837-7.
• Urwin, Gregory J.W., ed. (2004). Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2546-2.
• Van Cleve, George William (2010). A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-84668-2.
• Vorenberg, Michael (2001). Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65267-7.
• Walsh, Lorena S. (2010). Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia). ISBN 978-0-8078-3234-9.
• Wasserman, Adam (2010) [2009]. A People's History of Florida 1513–1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State. Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-4421670-9-4.
• West, Emily (2004). Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02903-8.
• White, Deborah Gray; Bay, Mia; Martin, Waldo E., Jr., eds. (2013). Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, Volume 1. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. ISBN 978-1-319-06052-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• ——; ——; ——, eds. (2013). Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, Volume 2: Since 1865. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. ISBN 978-1-319-06053-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Whitfield, Harvey Amani (2016). North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes. Vancouver, BC: UBC (University of British Columbia) Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-3229-8.
• Wiencek, Henry (2003). An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-17526-8.
• Wilder, Craig Steven (2013). Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-681-4.
• Wilentz, Sean (2005). The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-05820-4.
• —— (2018). No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674972223.
• Wilkins, Carolyn M. (2010). Damn Near White: An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1899-5.
• Winbush, Raymond A., ed. (2003). Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations. New York: Amistad/HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-008310-7.
• Winch, Julie (2016). Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-5114-5.
• Winston, James; Russwurm, John Brown (2010). The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4289-1.
• Woodson, Robert (2007). The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today's Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-684-82742-5.
• Wright, Gavin (2006). Slavery and American Economic Development. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3183-1.
• Wright, Michelle M. (2004). Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3288-4.
• Yafa, Stephen (2005). Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map. Viking. ISBN 0-670-03367-7.
• Yarbrough, Fay A. (2008). Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6.
• Zdrok-Ptaszek, Jodie, ed. (2002). The Anti-Slavery Movement. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. ISBN 0-7377-1047-0.

Journal articles 1

• Acharya, Avidit; Blackwell, Matthew; Sen, Maya (2016). "The Political Legacy of American Slavery". The Journal of Politics. 78 (3): 621–641. JSTOR 26550749.
• Ater, Renée (2010). "Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments". American Art. 24 (1): 20–23. doi:10.1086/652738.
• Ayers, Edward L. (January 2006). "The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage". OAH Magazine of History. 20 (1): 54–60. JSTOR 25162018.
• Bacon, Margaret Hope (2006). "Quakers and Colonization". Quaker History. 95 (1): 26–43. JSTOR 41947575.
• —— (2001). "Considering the Slave Trade: History and Memory". The William and Mary Quarterly. 58 (1): 245–252. doi:10.2307/2674426.
• Baker, H. Robert (2012). "The Fugitive Slave Clause and the Antebellum Constitution". Law and History Review. 30 (4): 1133–1174. JSTOR 23489468.
• Baker, Regina S. (2022). "The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South" (PDF). American Journal of Sociology. 127 (6): 1721–1781. doi:10.1086/719653.
• Banks, Taunya Lovell (2008). "Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key's Freedom Suit - Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia". Faculty Scholarship. Francis King School of Law, University of Maryland.
• Beckert, Sven (2017). "Cotton and the Global Origins of Capitalism". Journal of World History. 28 (1): 107–120. JSTOR 44631510.
• Berlin, Ira (March 2004). "American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice". The Journal of American History. 90 (4): 1251–1268. JSTOR 3660347.
• Biddle, Daniel R.; Dubin, Murray (2013). "'God Is Settling the Account': African American Reaction to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 137 (1): 57–78. doi:10.5215/pennmaghistbio.137.1.0057.
• Black, Kelvin C. (2006). "Frederick Douglass' Differing Opinions on the Pro-Slavery Character of the American Union". Qui Parle. 26 (1): 145–169. JSTOR 20685708.
• Boxill, Bernard R. (2009). "Frederick Douglass's Patriotism". The Journal of Ethics. 13 (4): 301–317. JSTOR 25656264.
• Brown, Vincent (December 2009). "Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery". American Historical Review. 114 (5): 1231–1249. JSTOR 23303423.
• Bruce, Dickson D. (1980). "Racial Fear and the Proslavery Argument: A Rhetorical Approach". The Mississippi Quarterly. 33 (4): 461–478. JSTOR 26474690.
• Byrd, Alexander X. (2004). "Studying Lynching in the Jim Crow South". OAH Magazine of History. 18 (2): 31–36. JSTOR 25163659.
• Campbell, Gwyn (August 2006). "Children and Slavery in the New World: A Review". Slavery & Abolition. 27 (2): 261–285. doi:10.1080/01440390600765722.
• Clegg, John J. "Capitalism and Slavery". Critical Historical Studies. 2 (2): 281–304.
• Cooper, Allan D. (2012). "From Slavery to Genocide: The Fallacy of Debt in Reparations Discourse". Journal of Black Studies. 43 (2): 107–126. JSTOR 23215202.
• Darrity, William (May 2022). "The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations" (PDF). Journal of Economic Perspectives. 36 (2): 99–122. doi:10.1257/jep.36.2.99.
• Davis, Adrienne (2007). "Reparations and the Slave Trade". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law. 101: 285–287. JSTOR 25660206.
• Davis, David A. (2008). "Not Only War Is Hell: World War I and African American Lynching Narratives". African American Review. 42 (3/4): 477–491. JSTOR 40301248.
• Dew, Charles B. (2005). "Review of The Slavery Debates, 1952–1990: A Retrospective by Robert W. Fogel". The Journal of Southern History. 71 (2): 498–500. doi:10.2307/27648802.
• Dirck, Brian (October 2007). "Changing Perspectives on Lincoln, Race, and Slavery". OAH Magazine of History. 21 (4): 9–12. JSTOR 25162137.
• Donoghue, John (October 2010). "'Out of the Land of Bondage': The English Revolution and the Atlantic Origins of Abolition". The American Historical Review. 115 (4): 943–974. JSTOR 23303208.
• Dougherty, Keith L.; Heckelman, Jac C. (2008). "Voting on Slavery at the Constitutional Convention". Public Choice. 136 (3/4): 293–313. JSTOR 40270762.
• Engerman, Stanley L. (June 2017). "Review of The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 by Calvin Schermerhorn and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist". Journal of Economic Literature. 55 (2): 637–643. doi:10.1257/jel.20151334.
• Epstein, Richard A. (2004). "The Case against Black Reparations". Boston University Law Review. 84 (1177): 1177–1192.
• Farr, James (2008). "Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery". Political Theory. 36 (4): 495–522. JSTOR 20452649.
• Finkelman, Paul (Winter 2000). "Garrison's Constitution: The Covenant with Death and How It Was Made". Prologue Magazine. 32 (4): 14–18.
• —— (2001). "The Founders and Slavery: Little Ventured, Little Gained". Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. 13 (2): 413–449.
• —— (2004). "Suppressing American Slave Traders in the 1790s". OAH Magazine of History. 18 (3): 51–55. JSTOR 25163684.
• —— (April 2011). "Slavery, the Constitution, and the Origins of the Civil War". OAH Magazine of History. 25 (2): 14–18. JSTOR 23210240.
• Finkenbine, Roy E. (2005). "Wendell Phillips and 'The Negro's Claim': A Neglected Reparations Document". Massachusetts Historical Review. 7: 105–119. JSTOR 25081197.
• Foster, Thomas (2011). "The Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American Slavery". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 20 (3): 445–464. doi:10.1353/sex.2011.0059.
• Fleischman, Richard K.; Oldroyd, David R.; Tyson, Thomas N. (2011). "Plantation Accounting and Management Practices in the U.S, and the British West Indies at the End of Their Slavery Eras". The Economic History Review. 64 (3): 765–797. JSTOR 41262477.
• —— (2012). "The Supreme Court and the History of Reconstruction–and Vice-Versa". Columbia Law Review. 112 (7): 1585–1606. JSTOR 41708159.
• Forret, Jeff (2013). "Before Angola: Enslaved Prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 54 (2): 133–171. JSTOR 24396520.
• Frey, Sylvia R. (January 2008). "The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion since Raboteau". Slavery & Abolition. 29 (1): 83–110. doi:10.1080/01440390701841083.
• Guelzo, Allen C. (2004). "How Abe Lincoln Lost the Black Vote: Lincoln and Emancipation in the African American Mind". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 25 (1): 1–22. JSTOR 20149052.
• —— (2013). "Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State". Journal of the Civil War Era. 3 (3): 307–330.
• Hall, Stephen G. (2003). "To Render the Private Public: William Still and the Selling of 'The Underground Rail Road'". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 127 (1): 35–55. JSTOR 20093599.
• Hammond, John Craig (2014). "Slavery, Sovereignty, and Empires: North American Borderlands and the American Civil War, 1660–1860". Journal of the Civil War Era. 4 (3): 264–298. JSTOR 26062152.
• Hardin, Robin; Hinton, Marcie (2001). "The Squelching of Free Speech in Memphis: The Life of a Black Post-Reconstruction Newspaper". Race, Gender & Class. 8 (4): 78–95. JSTOR 41674996.
• Harrill, J. Albert (2000). "The Use of the New Testament in the American Slave Controversy: A Case History in the Hermeneutical Tension between Biblical Criticism and Christian Moral Debate". Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. 10 (2): 149–186. doi:10.2307/1123945.
• Hilt, Eric (Spring 2020). "Revisiting Time on the Cross After 45 Years: The Slavery Debates and the New Economic History". Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics. 1 (2): 456–483. doi:10.1353/cap.2020.0000.
• —— (2017). "Economic History, Historical Analysis, and the 'New History of Capitalism'" (PDF). The Journal of Economic History. 77 (2): 511–536. doi:10.1017/S002205071700016X.
• Jalata, Asafa (2002). "Revisiting the Black Struggle: Lessons for the 21st Century". Journal of Black Studies. 33 (1). JSTOR 3180990.
• Johnson, Walter (June 2000). "The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s". The Journal of American History. 87 (1): 13–38. doi:10.2307/2567914.
• Kaye, Anthony E. (2009). "The Second Slavery: Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century South and the Atlantic World". The Journal of Southern History. 75 (3): 627–650. JSTOR 27779029.
• King, Wilma (2007). "'Mad' Enough to Kill: Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts". The Journal of African American History. 92 (1): 37–56. JSTOR 20064153.
• —— (2014). "Prematurely Knowing of Evil Things: African American Girls and Young Women in Slavery and Freedom". The Journal of African American History. 99 (3): 173–196. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.3.0173.
• Knowles, Helen J. (August 2013). "Seeing the Light: Lysander Spooner's Increasingly Popular Constitutionalism". Law and History Review. 31 (3): 531–558. JSTOR 23489502.
• Lambert, Franklin (2002). "'I Saw the Book Talk': Slave Readings of the First Great Awakening". The Journal of African American History. 87: 12–25. JSTOR 1562488.
• LaRue, Paul (2012). "Emancipation Day". Black History Bulletin. 75 (2): 20–23. JSTOR 24759673.
• Laurie, Bruce (Winter 2008). "Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective". Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. 5 (4): 17–55. doi:10.1215/15476715-2008-024.
• Lindsey, Treva B.; Johnson, Jessica Marie (Fall 2014). "Searching for Climax: Black Erotic Lives in Slavery and Freedom". Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 12 (2): 169–195. doi:10.2979/meridians.12.2.169.
• Logan, Trevon D. (2022). "American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History". The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 36 (2): 81–98. JSTOR 27123975.
• Mason, Matthew (August 11, 2006). "Slavery and the Founding". History Compass. 4 (5): 943–955. doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00345.x.
• Mathisen, Erik (2018). "The Second Slavery, Capitalism, and Emancipation in Civil War America". Journal of the Civil War Era. 8 (4): 677–699. JSTOR 26520991.
• McCarthy, Thomas (December 2004). "Coming to Terms with Our Past, Part II: On the Morality and Politics of Reparations for Slavery". Political Theory. 32 (6): 750–772. doi:10.1177/0090591704268924.
• McDaniel, W. Caleb (2014). "The Bonds and Boundaries of Antislavery". Journal of the Civil War Era. 4 (1): 84–105. JSTOR 26062125.
• Miller, Melinda C. (2018). "Destroyed by Slavery? Slavery and African American Family Formation Following Emancipation". Demography. 55 (5): 1587–1609. JSTOR 45048025.
• Morgan, Kenneth (2000). "George Washington and the Problem of Slavery". Journal of American Studies. 34 (2): 279–301. JSTOR 27556810.
• Morgan, Philip D. (2005). "Origins of American Slavery". OAH Magazine of History. 19 (4): 51–56. JSTOR 25161964.
• Moses, Wilson J. (2014). "'The Ever-Present Now': Frederick Douglass's Pragmatic Constitutionalism". The Journal of African American History. 99 (1–2): 71–88. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0071.
• Murray, John E.; Olmstead, Alan L.; Logan, Trevon D.; Pritchett, Jonathan B.; Rousseau, Peter L. (September 2015). "Roundtable of Reviews for The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist". The Journal of Economic History. 75 (3): 919–931. doi:10.1017/S0022050715000996.
• Naidu, Suresh (April 2020). "American Slavery and Labour Market Power". Economic History of Developing Regions. 35 (1): 3–22. doi:10.1080/20780389.2020.1734312.
• Neely, Mark E., Jr. (September 2009). "Lincoln, Slavery, and the Nation". The Journal of American History. 96 (2): 456–458. JSTOR 25622304.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Newby-Alexander, Cassandra (2019). "The Arrival of the First Africans to English North America". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 127 (3): 186–199. JSTOR 26743945.
• Newman, Richard S. (2013). "The Age of Emancipating Proclamations: Early Civil War Abolitionism and Its Discontents". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 137 (1): 33–55. doi:10.5215/pennmaghistbio.137.1.0033.
• Nikolova, Elena (2017). "Destined for Democracy? Labour Markets and Political Change in Colonial British America". British Journal of Political Science. 47 (1): 19–45. JSTOR 26353796.
• Oakes, James (1999). "Slaves without Contexts: Review of Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone". Journal of the Early Republic. 19 (1b): 103–109. doi:10.2307/3124924.
• Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. (January 2018). "Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism" (PDF). Explorations in Economic History. 67: 1–17. doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2017.12.002.
• Osborn, Ronald (2008). "William Lloyd Garrison and the United States Constitution: The Political Evolution of an American Radical". Journal of Law and Religion. 24 (1): 65–88. JSTOR 27639132.
• Pallua, Ulrich (2007). "'Slavery Was Agreeable, Its Fortune Desirable'. The Acceptance of the Evils of Slavery as a Social Phenomenon: An Indicator of a Pro-Slavery Approach". AAA: Arbeiten Aus Anglistik Und Amerikanistik. 32 (2): 197–220. JSTOR 26430847.
• Paludan, Phillip Shaw (Summer 2006). "Lincoln and Negro Slavery: I Haven't Got Time for the Pain". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 27 (2): 1–23.
• Penningroth, Dylan C. (2007). "The Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic Comparison". The American Historical Review. 112 (4): 1039–1069. JSTOR 40008443.
• —— (April 2009). "Writing Slavery's History". OAH Magazine of History. 23 (2): 13–20. JSTOR 40505983.
• Perrin, Liese M. (2001). "Resisting Reproduction: Reconsidering Slave Contraception in the Old South". Journal of American Studies. 35 (2): 255–274. JSTOR 27556967.
• Peterson, Mark A. (2002). "The Selling of Joseph: Bostonians, Antislavery, and the Protestant International, 1689-1733". Massachusetts Historical Review. 4: iv–22. JSTOR 25081169.
• Pfeifer, Michael J. (2010). "The Northern United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching of African Americans in the Civil War Era". The Journal of American History. 97 (3): 621–635. JSTOR 40959936.
• Posner, Eric; Vermeule, Adrian (2003). "Reparations for Slavery and Other Historical Injustices". Columbia Law Review. 103 (689): 689–747.
• Pritchett, Jonathan B. (June 2001). "Quantitative Estimates of the United States Interregional Slave Trade, 1820–1860". The Journal of Economic History. 61 (2): 467–475. JSTOR 2698028.
• Quigley, Paul (2009). "Independence Day Dilemmas in the American South, 1848–1865". The Journal of Southern History. 75 (2): 235–266. JSTOR 27778936.
• Ritchie, Daniel (2014). "Abolitionism and Evangelicalism: Isaac Newlson, the Evangelical Alliance, and the Transatlantic Debate over Christian Fellowship with Slaveholders". The Historical Journal. 57 (2): 421–446. JSTOR 24529054.
• Rodrigue, John C. (2017). "'Repudiating the Emancipation Proclamation, and Re-Establishing Slavery': The Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the United States". The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 58 (4): 389–403. JSTOR 26290929.
• Rosenfeld, Jennifer L. (2007). "Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Constitution". OAH Magazine of History. 21 (1): 34–38. JSTOR 25162098.
• Rugemer, Edward B. (2012). "Slave Rebels and Abolitionists: The Black Atlantic and the Coming of the Civil War". Journal of the Civil War Era. 2 (2): 179–202. JSTOR 26070222.
• Scanlan, Padraic Xavier (April 21, 2016). "Blood, Money and Endless Paper: Slavery and Capital in British Imperial History" (PDF). History Compass. 14 (5): 218–230. doi:10.1111/hic3.12310.
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (2012). "Arguing Slavery's Narrative: Southern Regionalists, Ex-Slave Autobiographers, and the Contested Literary Representations of the Peculiar Institution, 1824–1849". Journal of American Studies. 46 (4): 1009–1033. JSTOR 23352476.
• Scott, Daryl Michael (2020). "The Social and Intellectual Origins of 13thism". Fire!!!. 5 (2): 2–39. doi:10.5323/48573836.
• Sidbury, James (August 2007). "Globalization, Creolization, and the Not-So-Peculiar Institution". Journal of Southern History. 73 (3): 617–630. JSTOR 27649484.
• Sinha, Manisha (2003). "The Caning of Charles Sumner: Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War". Journal of the Early Republic. 23 (2): 233–262. doi:10.2307/3125037.
• —— (2013). "Architects of Their Own Liberation: African Americans, Emancipation, and the Civil War". OAH Magazine of History. 27 (2): 5–10. JSTOR 23489715.
• Sparks, Randy J. (2017). "Blind Justice: The United States's Failure to Curb the Illegal Slave Trade". Law and History Review. 35 (1): 53–79. JSTOR 26338410.
• Steckel, Richard H. (1978). "The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility". The Journal of Economic History. 38 (1): 289–291. JSTOR 2119338.
• —— (1979). "Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records". Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 86–114. doi:10.2307/1170958.
• Stuckey, P. Sterling (Fall 2006). "Reflections on the Scholarship of African Origins and Influence in American Slavery". Journal of African American History. 91 (4): 425–443. JSTOR 20064125.
• Sweet, John Wood (Spring 2009). "The Subject of the Slave Trade: Recent Currents in the Histories of the Atlantic, Great Britain, and Western Africa". Early American Studies. 7 (1): 1–45. JSTOR 23546554.
• Tadman, Michael (December 2000). "The Demographic Cost of Sugar: Debates on Slave Societies and Natural Increase in the Americas". American Historical Review. 105 (5): 1534–1575. doi:10.2307/2652029.
• Trefousse, Hans L. (2001). "Owen Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 22 (1): 14–32. JSTOR 20149008.
• Wannamaker, Marianne H. (2014). "Fertility and the Price of Children: Evidence from Slavery and Slave Emancipation". The Journal of Economic History. 74 (4): 1045–1071. JSTOR 24550693.
• Walters, Ronald W., ed. (2012). "African Americans and Movements for Reparations: Past, Present, and Future". The Journal of African American History. 97 (1–2): 1–217. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.1-2.fm.
• West, Emily; Knight, R.J. (2017). "Mothers' Milk: Slavery, Wet-Nursing, and Black and White Women in the Antebellum South". The Journal of Southern History. 83 (1): 37–68. JSTOR 44783893.
• —— (2018). "Reflections on the History and Historians of the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves: Enslaved Women and Intimate Partner Sexual Violence" (PDF). American Nineteenth Century History. 19 (1): 1–21.
• Wirls, Daniel (2007). "The 'Golden Age' Senate and Floor Debate in the Antebellum Congress". Legislative Studies Quarterly. 32 (2): 193–222. JSTOR 40263418.
• —— (2007). "'The Only Mode of Avoiding Everlasting Debate': The Overlooked Senate Gag Rule for Antislavery Petitions". Journal of the Early Republic. 27 (1): 115–138. JSTOR 30043477.
• Wood, Amy Louise; Donaldson, Susan V. (2008). "Lynching's Legacy in American Culture". The Mississippi Quarterly. 61 (1/2): 5–25. JSTOR 26476641.
• Wright, Gavin (2003). "Slavery and American Agricultural History". Agricultural History. 77 (4): 527–552. JSTOR 3744933.
• —— (2022). "Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy". Journal of Economic Perspectives . 36 (2): 123–148. JSTOR 2712377.
• Yuhl, S.E. (2013). "Hidden in Plain Sight: Centering the Domestic Slave Trade in American Public History". The Journal of Southern History. 79 (3): 593–625. JSTOR 23795089.

20th century publications

• Abzug, Robert H.; Maizlish, Stephen E., eds. (1986). New Perspectives on Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1571-X.
• Aitken, Hugh G.J., ed. (1971). Did Slavery Pay?: Readings in the Economics of Slavery in the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Alford, Terry (1977). Prince among Slaves. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504223-9.
• Anbinder, Tyler (1992). Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507233-2.
• Anderson, James D. (1988). The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1793-7.
• Andrews, William L. (1986). To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01222-4.
• Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., eds. (1999). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, Perseus Books Group. ISBN 978-0-465-00071-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Aptheker, Herbert (1945) [1943]. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York: Columbia University Press.
• —— (1968) [1948]. To Be Free: Studies in American Negro History. New York: International Publishers Co., Inc.
• —— (1964). Essays in the History of the American Negro. New York: International Publishers, Inc.
• —— (1966). Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion, Together with the Full Text of the So-called 'Confessions' of Nat Turner Made in Prison in 1831. New York: Humanities Press, Inc.
• —— (1989). Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-9702-5.
• Ashworth, John (1995). Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47487-6.
• Bailyn, Bernard (1986). Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-51569-2.
• ——; Morgan, Philip D., eds. (1991). Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA). ISBN 0-8078-1952-2.
• Baker, Jean H. (1984). Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Mid-Nineteenth Century Democrats. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-1513-6.
• Baker, Ray Palmer (1980) [1978]. Legacies of the American Revolution. Washington Depot, CT: Shiver Mountain Press. ISBN 0-89488-009-8.
• Bales, Kevin (1999). Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21797-7.
• Ball, Edward (1998). Slaves in the Family. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0-374-26582-8.
• Bankole, Katherine Kemi (1998). Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-8153-3059-6.
• Barnes, Gilbert Hobbs (1957) [1933]. The Antislavery Impulse, 1830—1844. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
• Barnwell, Marion, ed. (1997). A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 0-87805-963-6.
• Bateman, Fred; Weiss, Thomas (1980). A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1447-4.
• Bell, Malcolm, Jr. (1987). Major Butler’s Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-0897-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Belz, Herman (1978). Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-05692-9.
• Bennett, Lerone, Jr. (1966) [1962]. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1966. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Bennett, Lerone, Jr. (1965). Confrontation Black and White. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• —— (2007) [1999]. Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream. Chicago: Johnson Publishing. ISBN 0-87485-085-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Berlin, Ira; Hoffman, Ronald, eds. (1983). Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-0969-4.
• ——; Morgan, Philip D. (1991). The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas. Portland, OR: Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-3436-0.
• ——; Fields, Barbara J.; Miller, Steven F.; Reidy, Joseph P.; Rowland, Leslie S. (1992). Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: The New Press. ISBN 1-56584-015-1.
• ——; Fields, Barbara J.; Miller, Steven F.; Reidy, Joseph P.; Rowland, Leslie S. (1992). Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43102-6.
• —— (1992) [1974]. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: The New Press. ISBN 1-56584-028-3.
• ——; —— (1993). Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-1421-3.
• ——; Rowland, Leslie S., eds. (1997). Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era. New York: The New Press. ISBN 1-56584-026-7.
• —— (1998). Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-81092-9.
• ——; Favreau, Marc; Miller, Steven F., eds. (1998). Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York: The New Press. ISBN 9781595587633.
• Berwanger, Eugene H. (1967). The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
• Betts, Robert B. (2000) [1985]. In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-618-7.
• Billington, Monroe Lee; Hardaway, Roger D., eds. (1998). African Americans on the Western Frontier. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-491-5.
• Blackburn, Robin (1988). The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery. London; New York: Verso. ISBN 0-86091-188-8.
• Blackett, R.J.M. (1983). Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1082-5.
• Blassingame, John, ed. (1977). Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-0184-2.
• —— (1979). The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-502562-8.
• Blight, David W. (1989). Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1463-4.
• ——; Simpson, Brooks D. (2007) [1997]. Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-951-8.
• Boles, John B.; Nolen, Evelyn Thomas, eds. (1987). Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1318-2.
• Bolster, W. Jeffrey (1997). Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-07624-9.
• Bontemps, Arna (1961). 100 Years of Negro Freedom. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
• ——, ed. (1969). Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press.
• ——, ed. (1971). Five Black Lives. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6190-8.
• Botkin, B.A., ed. (1945). Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Bowman, Shearer Davis (1993). Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505281-1.
• Bracey, John, Jr.; Meier, August; Rudwick, Elliott, eds. (1971). American Slavery: The Question of Resistance. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 0-534-00017-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Bradford, Sarah H. (1981) [1961]. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith. ISBN 0-8446-1717-2.
• Braxton, Joanne, ed. (1989). Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-639-3.
• Breen, T.H.; Innes, Stephen (1980). 'Myne Owne Ground': Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503206-3.
• Brown, Kathleen M. (1996). Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia). ISBN 0-8078-2307-4.
• Brown, Richard D. (1976). Slavery in American Society. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company. ISBN 0669000736.
• Brown, William Wells (1971). The Negro in the American Rebellion. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0232-0.
• Bruce, Philip Alexander (1907). Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Higher Planting Class, Together with an Account of the Habits, Customs, and Diversions of the People. Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson.
• —— (1924). History of Virginia, Volume I: Colonial Period, 1607-1763. Chicago: The American Historical Society. See Lyon Gardiner Tyler (Vol. II) and Richard L. Morton (Vol. III)
• Bruns, Roger, ed. (1977). Am I Not a Man and a Brother: The Antislavery Crusade of Revolutionary America. New York: Chelsea House. ISBN 0-87754-035-7.
• Buck, Paul H. (1937). The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900. New York: Vintage Books.
• Buckmaster, Henrietta (1969) [1941]. Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Burnside, Madeleine; Robotham, Rosemarie (1997). Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century. Key West, FL: Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. ISBN 0-684-81819-1.
• Bynum, Victoria E. (1992). Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2016-4.
• Campbell, Randolph B. (1989). An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1505-3.
• Campbell, Stanley W. (1970) [1968]. The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1141-6.
• Channing, Edward (1961) [1925]. A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pulitzer Prize for History, 1926
• Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller (1981) [1905]. Woodward, C. Vann (ed.). Mary Chesnut's Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02459-2. Pulitzer Prize for History, 1982
• Christian, Charles M.; Bennet, Sari (1998). Black Saga: The African American Experience, A Chronology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-68717-9.
• Cohen, David William; Greene, Jack P., eds. (1974). Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-1374-3.
• Colburn, David R.; Landers, Jane L., eds. (1995). The African American Heritage of Florida. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1332-1.
• Collison, Gary (1997). Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80298-5.
• Conrad, Alfred H.; Meyer, John R. (1964). The Economics of Slavery, and Other Studies in Econometric History. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company.
• Coughtry, Jay (1981). The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700–1807. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-218-5.
• Countryman, Edward, ed. (1999). How Did American Slavery Begin?: Readings. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-18261-9.
• Craven, Wesley Frank (1971). White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-0372-6.
• Curtin, Philip D. (1969). The Atlantic Slave: A Census. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
• —— (1995) [1990]. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37475-8.
• Curry, Leonard P. (1981). The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-13124-6.
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• Woodward, C. Vann (1993) [1960]. The Burden of Southern History. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1894-X.
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• Wright, Gavin (1978). The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-05686-4.
• Yellin, Jean Fagan (1994). The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women’s Political Culture in Antebellum America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2728-2.

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Journal articles 2

• Alexander, Herbert B. (1922). "Brazilian and United States Slavery Compared". The Journal of Negro History. 7 (4): 349–364. doi:10.2307/2713718.
• Anstey, Roger; Viotti da Costa, Emília; Davis, David Brion (1979). "Slavery and The Protestant Ethic (with Commentary)". Historical Reflections. 6 (1): 157–181. JSTOR 41330421.
• Aufhauser, R. Keith (1974). "Slavery and Technological Change". The Journal of Economic History. 34 (1): 36–50. JSTOR 2116955.
• Bailey, David Thomas (1980). "A Divided Prism: Two Sources of Black Testimony on Slavery". The Journal of Southern History. 46 (3): 381–404. doi:10.2307/2207251.
• Bankole, Katherine (1998). "The Human/Subhuman Issue and Slave Medicine in Louisiana". Race, Gender & Class. 5 (3): 3–11. JSTOR 41674870.
• Barzel, Yoram (1977). "An Economic Analysis of Slavery". The Journal of Law & Economics. 20 (1): 87–110. JSTOR 725088.
• Bellamy, Donnie D. (1989). "The Legal Status of Black Georgians during the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras". The Journal of Negro History. 74 (1/4): 1–10. JSTOR 3031495.
• Berlin, Ira (1980). "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America". The American Historical Review. 85 (1): 44–78. doi:10.2307/1853424.
• Berwanger, Eugene H. (1972). "Negrophobia in Northern Proslavery and Antislavery Thought". Phylon. 33 (3): 266–275. JSTOR 273527.
• Bestor, Arthur Eugene (1961). "State Sovereignty and Slavery: A Reinterpretation of Proslavery Constitutional Doctrine, 1846-1860". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 54 (2): 117–180. JSTOR 40189783.
• Bezís-Selfa, John (1997). "Slavery and the Disciplining of Free Labor in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic Iron Industry". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 64: 270–286. JSTOR 27774063.
• Blackiston, Harry S. (1922). "Lincoln's Emancipation Plan". The Journal of Negro History. 7 (3): 257–277. doi:10.2307/2713420.
• Blassingame, John W. (1975). "Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems". The Journal of Southern History. 41 (4): 473–492. doi:10.2307/2205559.
• Breen, T.H. (1973). "A Changing Labor Force and Race Relations in Virginia, 1660-1710". Journal of Social History. 7 (1): 3–25. JSTOR 3786495.
• Brink, Dean C. (1989). "What Did Freedom Mean? The Aftermath of Slavery as Seen by Former Slaves and Former Masters in Three Societies". OAH Magazine of History. 4 (1): 35–46. JSTOR 25162636.
• Brown, Christopher L. (1999). "Empire without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution". The William and Mary Quarterly. 56 (2): 273–306. doi:10.2307/2674120.
• Brown, Ira V. (1988). "Pennsylvania's Antislavery Pioneers, 1688-1776". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 55 (2): 59–77. JSTOR 27773235.
• Brown, Richard D. (December 1988). "'Not Only Extreme Poverty, but the Worst Kind of Orphanage': Lemuel Haynes and the Boundaries of Racial Tolerance on the Yankee Frontier, 1770-1820". The New England Quarterly: 502–518. JSTOR 365942.
• Brown, Steven E. (1981). "Sexuality and the Slave Community". Phylon. 42 (1): 1–10. doi:10.2307/274880.
• Carsel, Wilfred= (1940). "The Slaveholders' Indictment of Northern Wage Slavery". The Journal of Southern History. 6 (4): 504–520. doi:10.2307/2192167.
• Carstensen, F.V.; Goodman, S.E. (1977). "Trouble on the Auction Block: Interregional Slave Sales and the Reliability of a Linear Equation". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 8 (2): 315–331. doi:10.2307/202791.
• Chroust, Anton-Hermann (1961). "Abraham Lincoln Argues a Pro-Slavery Case". American Journal of Legal History. 5 (4): 299–308. doi:10.2307/844031.
• Clarke, John Henrik (1976). "African Cultural Continuity and Slave Revolts in the New World: Part One". The Black Scholar. 8 (1): 41–49. JSTOR 41066899.
• Cohen, William (1969). "Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Slavery". The Journal of American History. 56 (3): 503–526. doi:10.2307/1904203.
• Collins, Bruce (1979). "Review: American Slavery and Its Consequences". Historical Journal. 33 (4): 997–1015. JSTOR 2638699.
• Cushing, John D. (1961). "The Cushing Court and the Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts: More Notes on the 'Quock Walker Case'". The American Journal of Legal History. 5 (2): 118–144. doi:10.2307/844116.
• David, C.W.A. (January 1924). "The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 and Its Antecedents". The Journal of Negro History. 9 (1): 18–25. doi:10.2307/2713433.
• David, Paul A.; Temin, Peter (September 1974). "Review: Slavery: The Progressive Institution?". Journal of Economic History. 34 (3): 739–783. JSTOR 2116761.
• Davis, David Brion (June 1979). "Slavery and the Idea of Progress" (PDF). Bulletin of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Religion. 3 (2). Oxford, MS: 1–8.
• Davis, T.R. (1923). "Negro Servitude in the United States: Servitude Distinguished from Slavery". The Journal of Negro History. 8 (3): 247–283. doi:10.2307/2713559.
• Davis, Thomas J (1971). "The New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741 as Black Protest". The Journal of Negro History. 56 (1): 17–30. doi:10.2307/2716023.
• Degler, Carl N. (1959). "Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2 (1): 49–66. JSTOR 177546.
• —— (1970). "Slavery in Brazil and the United States: An Essay in Comparative History". The American Historical Review. 75 (4): 1004–1028. doi:10.2307/1852267.
• Deutsch, Albert (1944). "The First U. S. Census of the Insane (1840) and Its Use as Pro-Slavery Propaganda". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 15 (5): 469–482. JSTOR 44446305.
• Deyle, Steven (Spring 1992). "The Irony of Liberty: Origins of the Domestic Slave Trade". Journal of the Early Republic. 12 (1): 37–62. JSTOR 3123975.
• Donald, David H. (1971). "The Proslavery Argument Reconsidered". The Journal of Southern History. 37 (1): 3–18. doi:10.2307/2205917.
• Dunn, Richard S. (1977). "A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799 to 1828". The William and Mary Quarterly. 34 (1): 32–65. doi:10.2307/1922625.
• Ehrlich, Walter (1974). "The Origins of the Dred Scott Case". The Journal of Negro History. 59 (2): 132–142. doi:10.2307/2717325.
• Elkins, Stanley; McKitrick, Eric (1957). "Institutions and the Law of Slavery: The Dynamics of Unopposed Capitalism". American Quarterly. 9 (1): 3–21. doi:10.2307/2710065.
• ——; —— (1957). "Institutions and the Law of Slavery: Slavery in Capitalist and Non-Capitalist Cultures". American Quarterly. 9 (2): 159–179. doi:10.2307/2710630.
• ——; —— (1961). "The Founding Fathers: Young Men of the Revolution". Political Science Quarterly. 76 (2): 181–216. doi:10.2307/2146217.
• Eltis, David; Engerman, Stanley L. (1992). "Was the Slave Trade Dominated by Men?". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 23 (2): 237–257. doi:10.2307/205275.
• Engerman, Stanley (1982). "Economic Adjustments to Emancipation in the United States and British West Indies". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 13 (2): 191–220. doi:10.2307/203108.
• —— (1986). "Slavery and Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: A Look at Some Recent Debates". The Journal of Economic History. 46 (2): 317–339. JSTOR 2122166.
• Evans, Robert, Jr. (1961). "Some Economic Aspects of the Domestic Slave Trade, 1830–1860". Southern Economic Journal. 27 (4): 329–337. doi:10.2307/1055531.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Farr, James (1986). "'So Vile and Miserable an Estate': The Problem of Slavery in Locke's Political Thought". Political Theory. 14 (2): 263–289. JSTOR 191463.
• Faust, Drew Gilpin (1992). "'Trying to Do a Man's Business': Slavery, Violence and Gender in the American Civil War". Gender & History. 4 (2): 197–214. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.1992.tb00056.x.
• Foner, Eric (1974). "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions". Civil War History. 20 (3): 197–214. doi:10.1353/cwh.1974.0073.
• —— (1994). "The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation". The Journal of American History. 81 (2): 435–460. doi:10.2307/2081167.
• Forten, James (1939). "Early Manuscript Letters Written by Negroes". The Journal of Negro History. 24 (2): 199–210. doi:10.2307/2714449.
• Franklin, John Hope (1944). "The Enslavement of Free Negroes in North Carolina". The Journal of Negro History. 29 (4): 401–428. doi:10.2307/2715162.
• Freehling, William W. (February 1972). "The Founding Fathers and Slavery". The American Historical Review. 77 (1): 81–93. doi:10.2307/1856595.
• Freudenberger, Herman; Pritchett, Jonathan B. (Winter 1991). "The Domestic United States Slave Trade: New Evidence". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 21 (3): 447–477. doi:10.2307/204955.
• Galenson, David W. (1984). "The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis". The Journal of Economic History. 44 (1): 1–26. JSTOR 2120553.
• Gallman, Robert E. (1979). "Slavery and Southern Economic Growth". Southern Economic Journal. 45 (4): 1007–1022. doi:10.2307/1056952.
• Gammon, Tim (1977). "Black Freedmen and the Cherokee Nation". Journal of American Studies. 11 (3): 357–364. JSTOR 27553311.
• Gershman, Sally (1976). ""Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery". French Historical Studies. 9 (3): 467–483. doi:10.2307/286232.
• Goldin, Claudia Dale (1973). "The Economics of Emancipation". The Journal of Economic History. 33 (1): 66–85. JSTOR 2117142.
• Gomez, Michael A. (1994). "Muslims in Early America". The Journal of Southern History. 60 (4): 671–710. doi:10.2307/2211064.
• Grimké, Archibald (February 1909). "Abraham Lincoln and the Fruitage of his Proclamation". The American Missionary. 63 (2): 51–53.
• Guillory, James Denny (1968). "The Pro-Slavery Arguments of Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright". Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 9 (3): 209–227. JSTOR 4231017.
• Gunderson, Gerald (1974). "The Origin of the American Civil War". Journal of Economic History. 34 (4): 915–950. JSTOR 2116615.
• Hahn, Steven (1990). "Class and State in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative Perspective". The American Historical Review. 95 (1): 75–98. doi:10.2307/2162955.
• Handlin, Oscar; Handlin, Mary (1950). "Origins of the Southern Labor System". The William and Mary Quarterly. 7 (2): 199–222. doi:10.2307/1917157.
• Hesseltine, William B. (1936). "Some New Aspects of the Pro-Slavery Argument". The Journal of Negro History. 21 (1): 1–14. doi:10.2307/2714540.
• Huston, James L. (1999). "Property Rights in Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War". The Journal of Southern History. 65 (2): 249–286. doi:10.2307/2587364.
• Ingersoll, Thomas N. (1991). "Free Blacks in a Slave Society: New Orleans, 1718-1812". The William and Mary Quarterly. 48 (2): 173–200. doi:10.2307/2938067.
• Johnson, Hildegard Binder (1988). "The Germantown Protest of 1688 Against Negro Slavery". Monatshefte. 80 (3): 268–277. JSTOR 30161607.
• Johnson, Michael P. (1981). "Runaway Slaves and the Slave Communities in South Carolina, 1799 to 1830". The William and Mary Quarterly. 38 (2): 418–441. doi:10.2307/1921955.
• —— (1981). "Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault?". Journal of Southern History. 47 (4): 493–520. doi:10.2307/2207400.
• Jones, George (1982). "The Black Hessians: Negroes Recruited by the Hessians in South Carolina and Other Colonies". South Carolina Historical Magazine. 83 (4): 287–302. JSTOR 27567765.
• Jordan, Winthrop (1962). "Modern Tensions and the Origins of American Slavery". The Journal of Southern History. 28 (1): 18–30. doi:10.2307/2205530.
• Kates, Don B., Jr. (1968). "Abolition, Deportation, Integration: Attitudes Toward Slavery in the Early Republic". The Journal of Negro History. 53 (1): 33–47. doi:10.2307/2716389.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kelso, William M. (1986). "Mulberry Row: Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello". Archaeology. 39 (5): 28–35. JSTOR 41731802.
• King, Richard H. (1977). "Review of Marxism and the Slave South by Eugene Genovese". American Quarterly. 29 (1): 117–131. doi:10.2307/2712264.
• Kolchin, Peter (1980). "In Defense of Servitude: American Proslavery and Russian Proserfdom Arguments, 1760-1860". The American Historical Review. 85 (4): 809–827. doi:10.2307/1868873.
• —— (1983). "Reevaluating the Antebellum Slave Community: A Comparative Perspective". The Journal of American History. 70 (3): 579–601. doi:10.2307/1903484.
• —— (1990). "Some Thoughts on Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: Russia and the United States South". Slavery & Abolition. 14 (2): 351–367. doi:10.1080/01440399008575015.
• Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Piñera, Sebastián (1977). "The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of Slaves, 1850–1860". The Journal of Economic History. 37 (2): 434–450. JSTOR 2118765.
• —— (October 1979). "The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans" (PDF). Economic Inquiry. 17 (4): 496–518. doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1979.tb00544.x.
• Krug, Mark M. (1973). "Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the Emancipation Proclamation". The History Teacher. 7 (1): 48–61. doi:10.2307/491202.
• Landon, Fred (1920). "The Negro Migration to Canada after the Passing of the Fugitive Slave Act". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 22–36. doi:10.2307/2713499.
• Langley, Harold D. (1967). "The Negro in the Navy and Merchant Service--1789-1860 1798". The Journal of Negro History. 52 (4): 273–286. doi:10.2307/2716189.
• Lawson, Bill E. (1997). "Property or Persons: On a 'Plain Reading' of the United States Constitution". The Journal of Ethics. 1 (3): 291–303. JSTOR 25115552.
• Lewis, Ronald L. (1974). "Slavery on Chesapeake Iron Plantations Before the American Revolution". The Journal of Negro History. 59 (3): 242–254. doi:10.2307/2716765.
• —— (1979). "'The Darkest Abode of Man': Black Miners in the First Southern Coal Field, 1780-1865". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 87 (2): 190–202. JSTOR 4248298.
• Lindsay, Arnett G. (1920). "Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Great Britain Bearing on the Return of Negro Slaves, 1783–1828". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (4): 391–419. doi:10.2307/2713676.
• Littlefield, Daniel F.; Underhill, Lonnie E. (1977). "Slave 'Revolt' in the Cherokee Nation, 1842". American Indian Quarterly. 3 (2): 121–131. doi:10.2307/1184177.
• Lovejoy, Paul E. (1982). "The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis". The Journal of African History. 23 (4): 473–501. JSTOR 182037.
• Loveland, Anne C. (1966). "Evangelicalism and 'Immediate Emancipation' in American Antislavery Thought". The Journal of Southern History. 32 (2): 172–188. doi:10.2307/220455.
• Lowe, Richard G.; Campbell, Randolph B. (1976). "The Slave-Breeding Hypothesis: A Demographic Comment on the 'Buying' and 'Selling' States". The Journal of Southern History. 42 (3): 401–412. doi:10.2307/2207159.
• Lyman, Stanford M. (1990). "Race, Sex, and Servitude: Images of Blacks in American Cinema". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 4 (1): 49–77. JSTOR 20006980.
• Lynd, Staughton (October 1963). "On Turner, Beard and Slavery". The Journal of Negro History. 48 (4): 235–250. doi:10.2307/2716327.
• Maltz, Earl M. (October 1992). "Slavery, Federalism, and the Structure of the Constitution". The American Journal of Legal History. 36 (4): 466–498. doi:10.2307/845555.
• Manning, Patrick; Griffiths, William S. (1988). "Divining the Unprovable: Simulating the Demography of African Slavery". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 19 (2): 177–201. doi:10.2307/204663.
• McLoughlin, William G.; Conser, Walter H. (1977). "The Cherokees in Transition: a Statistical Analysis of the Federal Cherokee Census of 1835". The Journal of American History. 64 (3): 678–703. doi:10.2307/1887236.
• —— (1995). "Who Freed the Slaves?". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 139 (1): 1–10. JSTOR 986716.
• Menard, Russell R. (1975). "The Maryland Slave Population, 1658 to 1730: A Demographic Profile of Blacks in Four Counties". The William and Mary Quarterly. 32 (1): 29–54. doi:10.2307/1922593.
• Miller, Joseph C. (1981). "Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade: Statistical Evidence on Causality". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 11 (3): 385–423. doi:10.2307/203625.
• Miller, William L. (April 1965). "A Note of the Importance of the Interstate Slave Trade of the Ante Bellum South". The Journal of Political Economy. 2. 73 (2): 181–187. doi:10.1086/259008. JSTOR 1829535.
• Montagu, M.F. Ashley (1944). "The African Origins of the American Negro and His Ethnic Composition". The Scientific Monthly. 58 (1): 58–65. JSTOR 18142.
• Morrow, Ralph E. (1961). "The Proslavery Argument Revisited". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 48 (1): 79–94. doi:10.2307/1902405.
• Nye, Russel B. (Summer 1946). "The Slave Power Conspiracy: 1830–1860". Science & Society. 10 (3): 262–274. JSTOR 40399768.
• Oakes, James (1999). "Slaves without Contexts: Review of Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone". Journal of the Early Republic. 19 (1b): 103–109. doi:10.2307/3124924.
• Ohline, Howard A. (October 1971). "Republicanism and Slavery: Origins of the Three-Fifths Clause in the United States Constitution". The William and Mary Quarterly. 28 (4): 563–584. doi:10.2307/1922187.
• Padgug, Robert A. (1976). "Problems in the Theory of Slavery and Slave Society". Science & Society. 40 (1): 3–27. JSTOR 40401917.
• Parkhurst, Jessie W. (1938). "The Role of the Black Mammy in the Plantation Household=". The Journal of Negro History. 23 (3): 349–369. doi:10.2307/2716765.
• Patterson, Orlando (1977). "The Study of Slavery". Annual Review of Sociology. 3: 407–449. JSTOR 2945942.
• —— (1984). "Slavery: The Underside of Freedom". Slavery and Abolition. 5 (2): 87–104. doi:10.1080/01440398408574867.
• —— (Autumn 1987). "The Unholy Trinity: Freedom, Slavery, and the American Constitution". Social Research. 54 (3): 543–577. JSTOR 40970472.
• Phillips, Ulrich B. (1928). "The Central Theme of Southern History". The American Historical Review. 34 (1): 30–43. doi:10.2307/1836477.
• Pitman, Frank Wesley (1926). "Fetishism, Witchcraft, and Christianity Among the Slaves". The Journal of Negro History. 11 (4): 650–668. doi:10.2307/2713886.
• Ransom, Roger L. (1974). "Was It Really All That Great to Be a Slave? (Review of Robert Fogel's and Stanley Engerman's Time on the Cross". Agricultural History. 48 (4): 578–585. JSTOR 3741391.
• Reed, Harry A. (1976). "The Slave as Abolitionist: Henry Highland Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America". Centennial Review. 20 (4): 385–394. JSTOR 23740345.
• Robinson, Armstead L. (1980). "In the Shadow of Old John Brown: Insurrection Anxiety and Confederate Mobilization, 1861-1863". The Journal of Negro History. 65 (4): 279–297. doi:10.2307/2716860.
• Roediger, David R. (1981). "And Die in Dixie: Funerals, Death, & Heaven in the Slave Community 1700-1865". The Massachusetts Review. 22 (1): 163–183. JSTOR 25089126.
• Russel, Robert R. (1937). "The Economic History of Negro Slavery in the United States". Agricultural History. 11 (4): 308–321. JSTOR 3739488.
• —— (1938). "The General Effects of Slavery Upon Southern Economic Progress". The Journal of Southern History. 4 (1): 34–54. doi:10.2307/2191852.
• —— (1941). "The Effects of Slavery upon Nonslaveholders in the Ante Bellum South". Agricultural History. 15 (2): 112–126. JSTOR 3739656.
• Saillant, John (1992). "Lemuel Haynes and the Revolutionary Origins of Black Theology, 1776-1801". Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. 2 (1): 79–102. JSTOR 1124015.
• Savitt, Todd L. (1982). "The Use of Blacks for Medical Experimentation and Demonstration in the Old South". The Journal of Southern History. 48 (3): 331–348. doi:10.2307/2207450.
• Schweninger, Loren (1989). "Black-Owned Businesses in the South, 1790-1880". The Business History Review. 63 (1): 22–60. doi:10.2307/3115425.
• Scott, Rebecca J. (1987). "Comparing Emancipations". Journal of Social History. 20 (3): 565–583. JSTOR 3788113.
• —— (1988). "Exploring the Meaning of Freedom: Postemancipation Societies in Comparative Perspective". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 68 (3): 407–428. doi:10.2307/2516514.
• Shapiro, Herbert (1984). "The Impact of the Aptheker Thesis: A Retrospective View of 'American Negro Slave Revolts'". Science & Society. 48 (1): 52–73. JSTOR 40402559.
• Sheeler, J. Reuben (1957). "Methods for Control of the Negro...Mind, Soul and Body". Negro History Bulletin. 21 (3): 67–69. JSTOR 4421529.
• Singleton, Theresa A. (1995). "The Archaeology of Slavery in North America". Annual Review of Anthropology. 24: 119–140. JSTOR 2155932.
• Smith, John David (1980). "A Different View of Slavery: Black Historians Attack the Proslavery Argument, 1890-1920". The Journal of Negro History. 65 (4): 298–311. doi:10.2307/2716861.
• —— (1984). "The Unveiling of Slave Folk Culture, 1865-1920". Journal of Folklore Research. 21 (1): 47–62. JSTOR 3814343.
• Soapes, Thomas F. (1977). "The Federal Writers' Project Slave Interviews: Useful Data or Misleading Source". The Oral History Review. 5: 33–38. JSTOR 3674886.
• Spector, Robert M. (1968). "The Quock Walker Cases (1781-83: Slavery, Its Abolition, and Negro Citizenship in Early Massachusetts". The Journal of Negro History. 53 (1): 12–32. doi:10.2307/2716388.
• Spindel, Donna J. (1996). "Assessing Memory: Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives Reconsidered". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 27 (2): 247–261. doi:10.2307/205156.
• Stampp, Kenneth M. (1970). "Interpreting the Slaveholders' World: Review of The World the Slaveholders Made by Eugene Genovese". Agricultural History. 44 (4): 407–412. JSTOR 3741525.
• Stavisky, Leonard Price (1949). "Negro Craftsmanship in Early America". The American Historical Review. 54 (2): 315–325. doi:10.2307/1845390.
• Stealey, John Edmund (1974). "Slavery and the Western Virginia Salt Industry". The Journal of Negro History. 59 (2): 105–131. doi:10.2307/2717324.
• Steckel, Richard H. (1978). "The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility". The Journal of Economic History. 38 (1): 289–291. JSTOR 2119338.
• —— (1979). "Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records". Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 86–114. doi:10.2307/1170958.
• Sturm, Circe (1998). "Blood Politics, Racial Classification, and Cherokee National Identity: The Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen". American Indian Quarterly. 22 (1/2): 230–258. JSTOR 1185118.
• Tadman, Michael (September 2007). "The Reputation of the Slave Trader in Southern History and the Social Memory of the South". American Nineteenth Century History. 8 (3): 247–271.
• Takaki, Ronald T. (1965). "The Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade in South Carolina". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 66 (1): 38–54. JSTOR 27566555.
• Temperley, Howard (May 1977). "Capitalism, Slavery and Ideology". Past & Present. {!-- no volume --> (75): 94–118. JSTOR 650442.
• Turner, Edward Raymond (1912). "The First Abolition Society in the United States". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 36: 92–109. JSTOR 20085581.
• Tyler, Ronnie C. (1972). "Fugitive Slaves in Mexico". The Journal of Negro History. 57 (1): 1–12. doi:10.2307/2717069.
• Van Horne, John Douglass (1921). "The Southern Attitude toward Slavery". The Sewanee Review. 29 (3): 322–350. JSTOR 27533448.
• Vaughan, Alden T. (1989). "The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 97 (3): 311–354. JSTOR 4249092.
• Walker, Juliet E.K. (1983). "Pioneer Slave Entrepreneurship–Patterns, Processes, and Perspectives: The Case of the Slave Free Frank on the Kentucky Pennyroyal, 1795-1819". The Journal of Negro History. 68 (3): 289–308. doi:10.2307/2717696.
• Wax, Darold D. (1966). "Negro Resistance to the Early American Slave Trade". The Journal of Negro History. 51 (1): 1–15. doi:10.2307/2716373.
• —— (1973). "Preferences for Slaves in Colonial America". The Journal of Negro History. 58 (4): 371–401. doi:10.2307/2716746.
• —— (1982). "'The Great Risque We Run': The Aftermath of Slave Rebellion at Stono, South Carolina, 1739-1745". The Journal of Negro History. 67 (2): 136–147. doi:10.2307/2717571.
• Wells, Tom Henderson (1963). "Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar: Gentleman Slave Trader". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 47 (2): 158–168. JSTOR 40578272.
• Westbury, Susan (1985). "Slaves of Colonial Virginia: Where They Came From". The William and Mary Quarterly. 42 (2): 228–237. doi:10.2307/1920429.
• Westerkamp, Marilyn J. (1986). "James Henley Thornwell, Pro-Slavery Spokesman within a Calvinist Faith". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 87 (1): 49–64. JSTOR 27567932.
• Whaples, Robert (1995). "Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions". The Journal of Economic History. 55 (1): 139=154. JSTOR 2123771.
• Wiecek, William M. (1977). "The Statutory Law of Slavery and Race in the Thhirteen Mainland Colonies of British America". The William and Mary Quarterly. 34 (2): 258–280. doi:10.2307/1925316.
• Winston, Sanford (1934). "Indian Slavery in the Carolina Region". The Journal of Negro History. 19 (4): 431–440. doi:10.2307/2714228.
• Wish, Harvey (1937). "American Slave Insurrections before 1861". The Journal of Negro History. 22 (3): 299–320. doi:10.2307/2714510.
• Woodward, C. Vann (1974). "Review: History from Slave Sources by George P. Rawick". he American Historical Review. 79 (2): 470–481. doi:10.2307/1850332.
• Wright, Gavin (1987). "The Economic Revolution in the American South". The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 1 (1): 161–178. JSTOR 1942954.

19th century publications

• Adams, Herbert B., ed. (1969) [1893-1914]. Slavery in the States: Selected Essays. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Arnold, Isaac Newton (1867). The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery. Chicago: Clarke & Co., Publishers.
• Bacon, Thomas (1813). Sermons Addressed to Masters and Servants, Published in the Year 1734. Winchester, VA: John Heiskell, Printer.
• Ball, Charles (1970) [1837]. Fifty Years in Chains (Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-43096-0.
• Bearse, Austin (1880). Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston. Boston: Warren Richardson.
• Benezet, Anthony; Wesley, John (1858). Views of American Slavery Taken a Century Ago. Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge.
• Birney, James Gillespie (1885) [1842]. The American Churches: The Bulwarks of American Slavery. Concord, NH: Parker Pillsbury.
• —— (1846). Sinfulness of Slaveholding in all Circumstances: Tested by Reason and Scripture. Detroit: Charles Willcox.
• Blake, W.O. (1859) [1857]. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. Columbus, OH.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Brewster, Francis E. (1850). Slavery and the Constitution. Both Sides of the Question. Philadelphia: unknown publisher.
• Brown, William Wells (1969) [1848]. The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.
• —— (2003) [1848]. From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1475-4.
• —— (1971) [1867]. The Negro in the American Rebellion. New York: The Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0238-X.
• Bruce, Philip Alexander (1889). The Plantation Negro as a Freeman: Observations on His Character, Condition, and Prospects in Virginia. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
• —— (1935) [1895]. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• —— (1935) [1895]. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Volume II. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Buckingham, J.S.Buckingham (1842). The Slave States Of America, Vol. I. London: Fisher, Son & Co.
• —— (1842). The Slave States Of America, Vol. II. London: Fisher, Son & Co.
• Cairnes, John Elliott (1862). The Slave Power: Its Character , Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest. London: Macmillan and Co.
• Canot, Théodore (2002) [1854]. Adventures of an African Slaver. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-42512-6.
• Child, Lydia Maria (1996) [1833]. Karcher, Carolyn (ed.). An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-006-X.
• Coffin, Joshua; Pinckney, Thomas (1970) [1822/1860]. Slave Insurrections: Selected Documents. Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press.
• Colfax, Richard H. (1833). Evidence against the Views of the Abolitionists, Consisting of Physical and Moral Proofs, of the Natural Inferiority of the Negroes. New York: James T.M. Bleakley, Publisher.
• Colman, Julia; Thompson, Matilda G. (1859). The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. New York: Carlton & Porter.
• Crane, William (1865). Anti-Slavery in Virginia: Extracts from Thos. Jefferson, Gen. Washington and Others Relative to the 'Blighting Curse of Slavery'. Debates on the 'Nat Turner Insurrection'. Baltimore: J.F. Weishampel.
• de Tocqueville, Alexise (1840). Mansfield, Harvey C.; Winthrop, Delba (eds.). Democracy in America (Volumes 1-2). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
• Douglass, Frederick (1988) [1845]. Bloom, Harold (ed.). Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Chelsea House. ISBN 1-55546-014-3.
• —— (2022) [1853]. The Heroic Slave. Lincoln, NE: Digital Commons, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1315. ISBN 978-1-60962-230-5. Fictional account based on Madison Washington who in 1841 led the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.
• —— (1855). My Bondage and My Freedom. New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan.
• —— (1863). The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (pamphlets). Halifax, West Yorkshire, England: T. and W. Birthwhistle, Printers. JSTOR 60227764.
• Drake, Charles E. (September 17, 1862). The War of Slavery upon the Constitution: Address of Charles E. Drake on the Anniversary of the Constitution Delivered in St. Louis.
• Drayton, William (1836). The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists. Philadelphia: H. Manly.
• Dresser, Amos (1836). Narrative of Amos Dresser: With Stone's letters from Natchez, an Obituary Notice of the Writer, and Two Letters from Tallahassee, Relating to the Treatment of Slaves. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Du Bois, W.E.B. (1896). The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., Publishers.
• Dunning, William Archibald (1910) [1897]. Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Elliott, E.N., ed. (1860). Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on This Important Subject. Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbott & Loomis.
• Freeman, Frederick (1835). Yaradee: A Plea for Africa, in Familiar Conversations on the Subject of Slavery and Colonization. Philadelphia: J. Whetham.
• Gilbert, Olive (1853). Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave: Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828. New York: Edward O. Jenkins.
• Goodell, William (1844). Views of American Constitutional Law in Its Bearing Upon American Slavery. Utica, NY: Jackson & Chaplin.
• —— (1968) [1853]. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Harper, William; Hammond, James H.; Simms, William Gilmore; Dew, Thomas Roderick (1852). The Pro-Slavery Argument; As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States. Charleston, SC: Walker, Richards & Co.
• Hiller, Oliver Prescott (1860). A Chapter on Slavery: Presenting a Sketch of Its Origin and History, with the Reasons for Its Permission and the Probable Manner of Its Removal. London: Hudson & Son.
• Holley, Sallie (1899). Chadwick, John White (ed.). A Life for Liberty: Anti-Slavery and Other Letters of Sallie Holley. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
• Jacobs, Harriet A.; Griffin, Farah Jasmine (2005) [1861]. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Barnes & Noble Classics. ISBN 978-1-59308-283-3.
• Jones, Thomas (1880) [1850]. The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years. Boston: A.T. Bliss & Co.
• Keckley, Elizabeth (1988) [1868]. Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505259-5.
• Kemble, Frances Anne (1863). Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838–1839. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers.
• Kenrick, John (1817). The Horrors of Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Hilliard and Metcalf.
• Kingsley, Zephaniah (2000) [1828]. Stowell, Daniel W. (ed.). Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813021171.
• Leigh, Frances Butler (1969) [1883]. Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation since the War. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Lincoln, Abraham (2001). Johnson, Michael P. (ed.). Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-22763-9.
• Lundy, Benjamin (1969) [1847]. The Life, Travels and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Mannix, Daniel P.; Cowley, Malcolm (1965) [1962]. Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865. New York: The Viking Press, Inc.
• Mathews, Edward (1853). The Shame and Glory of the American Baptists; or, Slaveholders versus Abolitionists (pamphlets). Bristol, England: Thomas Mathews. JSTOR 60221921.
• McCall, George A. (1868). Letters from the Frontiers: Written During a Period of Thirty Years' Service in the Army of the United States. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
• Moore, George H. (1866). Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
• Nell, William C. (1986) [1855]. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. Salem, NH: Ayer Company, Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-405-01832-0.
• O'Brien, James Bronterre (1885). The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came into the World and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out. London: William Reeves.
• Olmsted, Frederick Law (1981) [1852-1857]. Beveridge, Charles E.; Capen, Charles (eds.). The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume II: Slavery and the South, 1852-1857. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2242-4.
• Olmsted, Frederick Law (1861). Journeys And Explorations In The Cotton Kingdom, Vol. 1. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.
• —— (2008) [1861]. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books. ISBN 978-1-4290-1591-2.
• Pettit, Eber M. (1999) [1879]. Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad. Westfield, NY: Chautauqua Region Press. ISBN 0-9658955-3-X.
• Phillips, Wendell (1968) [1863]. Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Pickard, Kate E.R. (1968) [1856]. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife Vina, after Forty Years of Slavery. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Rankin, John (1833). Letters on American Slavery: Addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, Merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia. Boston: Garrison & Knapp.
• Redpath, James (1996) [1859]. McKivigan, John B. (ed.). The Roving Editor, or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
• Richardson, Nathaniel Smith (1864). The Union, the Constitution, and Slavery. New York: American Bible Society.
• Ross, Alexander Milton (1972) [1876]. Recollections and Experiences of an Abolitionist from 1855 to 1865. Northbrook, IL: Metro Books, Inc.
• Seebohm, Frederic (1865). The Crisis of Emancipation in America, Being a Review of the History of Emancipation, from the Beginning of the American War to the Assassination of President Lincoln. London: A.W. Bennett.
• Senior, Nassau William (1856). American Slavery. London: T. Fellowes.
• Siebert, Wilbur H. (1968) [1898]. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.
• Smedley, R.C. (1883). History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. Lancaster, PA: Office of the Journal.
• Smith, Gerrit (1844). Constitutional Argument Against American Slavery. Utica, NY: Jackson & Chaplin.
• Spooner, Lysander (1845). The Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Boston: Bella Marsh.
• Steward, Austin (2002) [1857]. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0-8156-2721-1.
• Stewart, Maria W. (1987) [1831-1879]. Maria W. Stewart, America’s First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-36342-X.
• Stewart, Alvan (1845). A Legal Argument Before the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, at the May Term, 1845, at Trenton, for the Deliverance of 4,000 Persons from Bondage. New York: Finch & Weed.
• Still, William (1872). The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
• Stone, Kate (1995) [1861-1868, 1955]. Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-807 1-2042-1.
• Thomas, E. (1834). A Concise View of the Slavery of the People of Colour in the United States. Philadelphia: E. Thomas (self).
• Thurston, Richard Bowers; Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden; Williston, Timothy (1857). Three Prize Essays on American Slavery. Boston: Congregational Board of Publications.
• Torrey, Jesse, Jr. (1970) [1817]. A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States... St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• —— (1971) [1822]. American Slave Trade: From Colonial Times to the Civil War. New York: Negro Universities Press.
• Walker, David (1830). Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles. Boston: D. Walker.
• Weld, Theodore Dwight (1839). American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Welling, James C. (1880). "The Emancipation Proclamation". The North American Review. 130 (279): 163–185. JSTOR 25100834.
• Williams, James (1838). Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama. Boston: Isaac Knapp (for the American Anti-Slavery Society).

18th century publications

• Cugoano, Ottobah (1999) [1787]. Carretta, Vincent (ed.). Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings (PDF). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-044750-4.
• Dana, James (September 9, 1790). The African Slave Trade: A Discourse. New Haven, CT: Thomas and Samuel Green.
• Equiano, Olaudah (2007) [1789]. Allison, Robert J. (ed.). The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-1-4039-7156-2.
• Hall, Prince (1797). A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy (Massachusetts). Boston: Benjamin Edes.
• Hart, Levi (1775). Liberty Described and Recommended: in a Sermon, Preached to the Corporation of Freemen in Farmington, at Their Meeting on Tuesday, September 20, 1774. Hartford, CT: E. Watson.
• Haynes, Lemuel (1990) [1774-1833]. Newman, Richard (ed.). Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-926019-24-4.
• —— (2009) [1774-1833]. Anyabwile, Thabiti M. (ed.). May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books. ISBN 9781601780652.
• Jones, Absalom; Allen, Richard; Clarkson, Matthew (1794). A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 and a Refutation of Some Censures, Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications. Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, at Franklin's Head.
• Mather, Cotton (1706). Royster, Paul (ed.). "The Negro Christianized. An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706)". Electronic Texts in American Studies. 28: 1–35.
• Newton, John (1788). Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade (PDF). Lodon: J. Buckland and J. Johnson.
• Paine, Thomas (1775). African Slavery In America. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser.
• Sewall, Samuel (1969) [June 24, 1700]. Kaplan, Sidney (ed.). The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
• —— (1973) [1878-1882]. Thomas, M. Halsey (ed.). The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, Volume I. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. ISBN 0-374-13952-0.
• —— (1973) [1878-1882]. Thomas, M. Halsey (ed.). The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, Volume II. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. ISBN 0-374-13952-0.
• Stedman, John Gabriel (1992) [1790]. Price, Richard; Price, Sally (eds.). Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4259-X.
• Webster, Noah (1793). The Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry. Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin.
• Webb, Frank J. (2002) [1857]. The Garies and Their Friends. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5597-7.
• Wesley, John (1774). Observations on Slavery. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank. pp. 27–40.
• Wilson, Harriet E. (2002) [1859]. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 1-4000-3120-6.
• Woods, Joseph (1784). Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes. London: James Phillips.

For younger readers

• Aliki (1965). A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George W. Carver. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• Altman, Linda Jacobs (2004). The Politics of Slavery: Fiery National Debates Fueled by the Slave Economy. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7660-2154-8.
• Armentrout, David; Armentrout, Patricia (2004). The Emancipation Proclamation. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Publishing LLC. ISBN 1-59515-233-4.
• Aronson, Marc (2010). Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science. Boston: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-618-57492-6.
• Best, B.J. (2016). Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment. New York: Cavendish Square Publishing. ISBN 978-1-50260-530-6.
• Bontemps, Arna (1958). Story of the Negro. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Bowen, David (1965). Struggle Within: Race Relations in the United States. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Burchard, Peter (1999). Lincoln and Slavery. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ISBN 0-689-81570-0.
• Chambers, Bradford, ed. (1968). Chronicles of Negro Protest: A Background Book for Young People Documenting the History of Black Power. New York: Parents' Magazine Press.
• Colman, Julia; Thompson, Matilda G. (1859). The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. New York: Carlton & Porter.
• Currie,, Stephen (2003). Escapes from Slavery. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books. ISBN 1-59018-276-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
• Davis, Kenneth C. (2016). In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781627793117.
• DeFord, Deborah H. (2006). Life under Slavery. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. ISBN 0-8160-6135-1.
• Eskridge, Ann E. (2004). Slave Uprisings and Runaways: Fighting for Freedom and the Underground Railroad. Berkeley Heights, NJ: nslow Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7660-2154-8.
• Garrison, Mary (2002). Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Kids. ISBN 1-57249-272-4.
• Goodman, Walter (1969). Black Bondage: The Life of Slaves in the South. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
• Gorrell, Gena K. (1996). North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. Toronto, ONT: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited.
• Gresko, Jessica A. (2007). Slave Rebellions. Detroit: Lucent Books. ISBN 9781590185483.
• Hamilton, Virginia (1993). Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-92873-3.
• Hermann, Spring (2010). The Struggle for Freedom, 1770 to 1870. London: Heinemann Library. ISBN 978-0-431194-03-5.
• Hughes, Langston (1954). Famous American Negroes. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
• —— (1958). Famous Negro Heroes of America. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
• Ingraham, Leonard W. (1968). Slavery in the United States. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc.
• Isaacs, Sally Senzell (2001). Life on a Southern Plantation. Chicago: Heinemann Library. ISBN 1-57572-316-6.
• Jordan, Anne Devereaux; Schomp, Virginia (2007). Slavery and Resistance. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark. ISBN 978-0-7614-2178-8.
• Kelly, Joseph (2013). America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War. New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 978-1-59020-719-2.
• Kleinman, Joseph; Kurtis-Kleinman, Eileen (2001). Life on an African Slave Ship. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books. ISBN 1-56006-653-9.
• Landon, Elaine (2001). Slave Narratives: The Journey to Freedom. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc. ISBN 9780531117439.
• Lewis, Cicely (2022). Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications. ISBN 9781728439068.
• Liston, Robert A. (1972). Slavery in America: The Heritage of Slavery. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
• Littlejohn, Randy (2004). A Timeline of the Slave Trade in America. New York: Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8239-4540-5.
• McGovern, Ann (1965). Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman. New York: The Four Winds Press.
• McKissack, Pat (1987). Frederick Douglass: The Black Lion. Chicago: Childrens Press. ISBN 0-516-03221-6.
• McLaurin, Melton Alonza (1991). Celia, A Slave. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-1352-1.
• McNeese, Tim (2004). The Rise and Fall of American Slavery: Freedom Denied, Freedom Gained. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7660-2156-4.
• Millender, Dharathula H. (1965). Crispus Attucks, Boy of Valor. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill.
• Owen, Robert Dale (1864). The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States. Philadelphia: J.R. Lippincott & Co.
• Patterson, Lillie (1991) [1962]. Booker T. Washington: Leader of His People. New York: Chelsea Juniors. ISBN 0-7910-1427-4.
• —— (1991). Frederick Douglass: Freedom Fighter. New York: Chelsea Juniors. ISBN 9780791014103.
• Pine, Tillie S.; Levine, Joseph (1967). The Africans Knew. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
• Schleichert, Elizabeth (1998). The Thirteenth Amendment: Ending Slavery. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-89490-897-9.
• Shorto, Russell (1991). Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press. ISBN 1-878841-12-2.
• Strangis, Joel (1999). Lewis Hayden and the War Against Slavery. New Haven, CT: Linnet Books. ISBN 0-208-02430-1.
• Tapper, Suzanne Cloud (2017). Views on Slavery: In the Words of Enslaved Africans, Merchants, Owners, and Abolitionists. New York, NY: Enslow Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7660-7553-5.
• Taylor, Yuval; Judge, Kathleen, eds. (2005). Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 978-1-55652-635-0.
• Tomek, Beverly C. (2014). Pennsylvania Hall: A "Legal Lynching" in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983760-1.
• Woog, Adam (2009). The Emancipation Proclamation: Ending Slavery in America. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60413-307-3.