Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States

This is a bibliography of works regarding the internal or domestic slave trade in the United States (1775–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves).

General

• Bancroft, Frederic (2023) . Slave Trading in the Old South (Original publisher: J. H. Fürst Co., Baltimore). Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman (Reprint ed.). Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-64336-427-8. LCCN 95020493. OCLC 1153619151.
• Baptist, Edward E. (2014). The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-00296-2. LCCN 2017302300. OCLC 885121937.
• Berry, Daina Ramey (2017). The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807047637. LCCN 2016014894. OCLC 970030444. OL 26888279M.
• Cabot, Andy (December 31, 2020). ""Why may not our country be enriched by that lucrative traffic?": The slave trade and the failed politics of federal proscription in the early American Republic (1787-1808)". Xvii-Xviii (77). doi:10.4000/1718.6037. ISSN 0291-3798. S2CID 234415270.
• Calomiris, Charles W. and Pritchett, Jonathan B., Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market (August 2008). NBER Working Paper No. w14281, Available at SSRN: SSRN 1261468
• Cheathem, Mark Renfred (2007). "The Domestic Slave Trade and the United States Constitution". Reviews in American History. 35 (3): 374–379. doi:10.1353/rah.2007.0048. ISSN 1080-6628. S2CID 143736923.
• Conrad, Robert Edgar (2001). In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union. Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02343-4.
• Dew, Charles B. (2016). The making of a racist: a southerner reflects on family, history, and the slave trade. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 9780813938882. LCCN 2015043815. OCLC 956713856.
• Deyle, Steven (Spring 1992). ""The Irony of Liberty: Origins of the Domestic Slave Trade"". Journal of the Early Republic. 12 (1): 37–62. doi:10.2307/3123975. JSTOR 3123975.
• Deyle, Steven H. (2005). Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195160406. LCCN 2004056840. OCLC 61342034. OL 7390529M.
• Deyle, Steven (2009). "An "Abominable" New Trade: The Closing of the African Slave Trade and the Changing Patterns of U.S. Political Power, 1808–60". The William and Mary Quarterly. Abolishing the Slave Trades: Ironies and Reverberations. 66 (4). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 833–850. ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 40467543.
• Deyle, Steven (2010). "5. Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South". In Barnes, L. Diane; Schoen, Brian; Towers, Frank (eds.). The Old South's modern worlds : slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199840960. OCLC 721907202.
• Finley, Alexandra J. (2020). An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469655123. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469655130_finley. LCCN 2019052078. OCLC 1194871275. Project MUSE book 76798.
• Freudenberger, Herman; Pritchett, Jonathan B. (Winter 1991). "The Domestic United States Slave Trade: New Evidence". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 21 (3): 447. doi:10.2307/204955. JSTOR 204955.
• Gudmestad, Robert H. (2003). A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807129227.
  • (Thesis version via core.ac.uk)
  • Gudmestad, Robert Harold, "A Troublesome Commerce: The Interstate Slave Trade, 1808-1840." (1999). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 6941. https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6941 ISBN 9780599372498 doi:10.31390/gradschool_disstheses.6941
• Gutman, H. G.; Sutch, R. (1976). "The Slave Family: Protected Agent of Capitalist Masters or Victim of the Slave Trade?". In David, Paul A. (ed.). Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 214–255. ISBN 9780195020335. OCLC 2301195.
• Hilliard, Kathleen M. (2013). Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South. Cambridge Studies on the American South. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107636644.
• Johnson, Walter, ed. (2005). The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. The David Brion Davis Series. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300103557.
• Johnson, Walter (2009) . Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674039155. ISBN 9780674039155. LCCN 99-046696. OCLC 923120203.
• Johnson, Walter (2013). River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674074880. LCCN 2012030065. OCLC 827947225. OL 26179618M.
• Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Pinera, Sebastian (June 1977). "The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of Slaves, 1850–1860". The Journal of Economic History. 37 (2): 434–450. doi:10.1017/S002205070009700X. ISSN 0022-0507. S2CID 153416059.
• Kotlikoff, Laurence J. (October 1979). "The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans, 1804–1862" (PDF). Economic Inquiry. 17 (4): 496–518. doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1979.tb00544.x. ISSN 1465-7295.
• Lightner, David L. (Spring 2002). "The Founders and the Interstate Slave Trade". Journal of the Early Republic. 22 (1): 25–51. doi:10.2307/3124856. JSTOR 3124856.
• Lightner, David L. (November 2004). "The Supreme Court and the Interstate Slave Trade: A Study in Evasion, Anarchy, and Extremism". Journal of Supreme Court History. 29 (3): 229–253. doi:10.1111/j.1059-4329.2004.00084.x. ISSN 1059-4329. S2CID 143223298.
• Lightner, David L. (2006). Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. doi:10.12987/9780300135169. ISBN 0-300-11470-2. OCLC 1024037256. S2CID 262482327.
• McInnis, Maurie D. (2013). Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226055060.
• Miller, William L. A Note on the Importance of the Interstate Slave Trade of the Ante Bellum South Journal of Political Economy 1965 73:2, 181-187
• Pritchett, Jonathan B. (Summer 1997). "The Interregional Slave Trade and the Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 28 (1): 57–85. doi:10.2307/206166. JSTOR 206166.
• 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. doi:10.1017/S002205070102808X. S2CID 154462144.
• Thomas D. Russell, Articles Sell Best Singly: The Disruption of Slave Families at Court Sales, 1996 UTAH L. REV. 1161 (1996) https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=law_facpub
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (2014). "Capitalism's Captives: The Maritime United States Slave Trade, 1807–1850". Journal of Social History. 47 (4): 897–921. doi:10.1093/jsh/shu029. JSTOR 43308821.
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (2015). The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. doi:10.12987/9780300213898. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1. JSTOR j.ctt1bh4d2w. LCCN 2014036403. OCLC 890614581.
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (2020). "Chapter 2: 'Cash for Slaves' The African American Trail of Tears". In Bond, Beverly Greene; O'Donovan, Susan Eva (eds.). Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820356495.
• Sherwin, Oscar (April 1945). "Trading in Negroes". Negro History Bulletin. 8 (7): 160–166. JSTOR 44214396.
• Spears, John R. (1900). "Chapter XVII: Tales of the Coastwise Slave Trade". The American slave-trade: an account of its origin, growth and suppression. Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. LCCN 67027654. OCLC 421515. OL 23379348M. 
• Stampp, Kenneth Milton (1956). "Chapter Six: Slavemongering". The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South. Internet Archive. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 237–278.
• Steckel, Richard H.; Ziebarth, Nicolas (September 2013). "A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves". The Journal of Economic History. 73 (3): 792–809. doi:10.1017/S0022050713000612. ISSN 0022-0507.
• Tadman, Michael (1996) . Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (2nd ed.). University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299118549. OCLC 34825947.
• 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. doi:10.1080/14664650701505117. ISSN 1466-4658. S2CID 144552462.
• Wesley, C. H. “Manifests of Slave Shipments Along the Waterways, 1808–1864.” Journal of Negro History 27, no. 2 (1942): 155–74
• Yuhl, Stephanie E. (2013). "Hidden in Plain Sight: Centering the Domestic Slave Trade in American Public History". The Journal of Southern History. 79 (3): 593–624. JSTOR 23795089.

Specific eras, markets, sales, ships, practices, etc.

• n.a. (1950). "Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia". Negro History Bulletin. 14 (1): 7–18. ISSN 0028-2529. JSTOR 44212391.
• Bailey, Anne C. (2017). The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108140393. ISBN 978-1-108-14039-3.
• Clark, T. D. (December 1934). "The Slave Trade between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 21 (3): 331–342. doi:10.2307/1897378. ISSN 0161-391X. JSTOR 1897378.
• Colby, Robert (2023). "Chapter 11: Waiting for Fevers to Abate: The Contagion and Fear in the Domestic Slave Trade". In Cooper, Mandy L.; Popp, Andrew (eds.). Business of Emotions in Modern History. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 219–239. doi:10.5040/9781350268876.ch-11. ISBN 978-1-3502-6249-2. OCLC 1294194709.
• Colby, Robert K. D. (2024). An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197578261.001.0001. ISBN 9780197578285. LCCN 2023053721. OCLC 1412042395.
• Coleman, J. Winston (1940). "Chapter VI: 'Niggah Tradahs' & Chapter VII: Down the River & Chapter VIII: 'Nigger Stealers'". Slavery times in Kentucky. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 142–217.
• Corrigan, Mary Beth (2001). "Imaginary Cruelties? A History of the Slave Trade in Washington, D.C." Washington History. 13 (2): 4–27. ISSN 1042-9719. JSTOR 40073372.
• Davis, Robert Ralph (1971). "Buchanian Espionage: A Report on Illegal Slave Trading in the South in 1859". The Journal of Southern History. 37 (2): 271–278. doi:10.2307/2205824. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2205824.
• DeGraft-Hanson, Kwesi (February 18, 2010). "Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale". Southern Spaces. 2010. doi:10.18737/M76K6J. ISSN 1551-2754.
• Finkelman, Paul (2008). "Regulating the African Slave Trade". Civil War History. 54 (4): 379–405. doi:10.1353/cwh.0.0034. ISSN 1533-6271. S2CID 143987356.
• 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. JSTOR 2567914.
• Kendall, John S. (January 1939). "Shadow Over the City". The Louisiana Historical Quarterly. 22 (1). New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Society: 142–165. ISSN 0095-5949. OCLC 1782268. LDS Film 1425689, Image Group Number (DGS) 1640025 – via FamilySearch Digital Library.
• Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. (2019). Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108616324. ISBN 9781108616324. LCCN 2018043005. OCLC 1055433726. S2CID 166472669.
• Marks, John (2007). "Abdication and Acceptance: Slave-Trading in Antebellum Lynchburg". Agora. 16. Lynchburg College: 12. Article 16.
• McElveen, A. J.; Oakes, Ziba B. (2010). Drago, Edmond Lee (ed.). Broke by the War: Letters of a Slave Trader. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1570039423.
• McInnis, Maurie D. (Fall 2013). "Mapping the slave trade in Richmond and New Orleans". Building & Landscapes. 20 (2): 102–125. doi:10.5749/buildland.20.2.0102. JSTOR 10.5749/buildland.20.2.0102. S2CID 160472953. Project MUSE 538683.
• Mooney, Chase C. (1971) . "Chapter Two: Hire, Sale, Theft and Flight of Slaves". Slavery in Tennessee. Indiana University Publications, Social Science Series No. 17 (Reprint ed.). Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press. OCLC 609222448 – via HathiTrust. 
• Schermerhorn, Calvin (October 2, 2015). "Slave Trading in a Republic of Credit: Financial Architecture of the US Slave Market, 1815–1840". Slavery & Abolition. 36 (4): 586–602. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2015.1049004. ISSN 0144-039X. S2CID 146765520.
• Sellers, James Benson (2015) . "Chapter 5: Traffic in Slaves". Slavery in Alabama. Library of Alabama Classics. Introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817389147. LCCN 50004433. OCLC 899157440.
• Tadman, Michael (1996). "The Hidden History of Slave Trading in Antebellum South Carolina: John Springs III and Other 'Gentlemen Dealing in Slaves'". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 97 (1): 6–29. JSTOR 27570133.
• Trexler, Harrison Anthony (1914). Slavery in Missouri, 1804–1865. Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. Vol. XXXIII. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 44–53. LCCN 14013126.
• Williams, Jennie K. (April 2, 2020). "Trouble the water: The Baltimore to New Orleans coastwise slave trade, 1820–1860". Slavery & Abolition. 41 (2): 275–303. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2019.1660509. ISSN 0144-039X. S2CID 203494471.
• Wilson, Carol (2009) . Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780–1865. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813149790. JSTOR j.ctt130j5m9. LCCN 93021012. OCLC 900344359.

Specific traders and trading companies

• Calderhead, William (1977). "The Role of the Professional Slave Trader in a Slave Economy: Austin Woolfolk, A Case Study". Civil War History. 23 (3): 195–211. doi:10.1353/cwh.1977.0041. ISSN 1533-6271. S2CID 143907436. - Austin Woolfolk
• Forret, Jeff (2020). Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108651912. ISBN 9781108651912. S2CID 240924397. - Thomas Williams and William H. Williams
• Gudmestad, Robert H. (2003). "The Troubled Legacy of Isaac Franklin: The Enterprise of Slave Trading". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 62 (3): 193–217. JSTOR 42627764. - Isaac Franklin
• Howell, Isabel (1943). "John Armfield, Slave-trader". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 2 (1): 3–29. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42620772. - John Armfield
• Huebner, Timothy S. (March 2023). "Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest". Civil War History. 69 (1): 42–75. doi:10.1353/cwh.2023.0009. ISSN 1533-6271. S2CID 256599213. Project MUSE 879775. - N. B. Forrest
• Rothman, Joshua D. (2021). The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. Basic Books. ISBN 9781541616592. LCCN 2020038845. - Franklin & Armfield
• Rothman, Joshua D. (May 2022). "The American Life of Jourdan Saunders, Slave Trader". Journal of Southern History. 88 (2): 227–256. doi:10.1353/soh.2022.0054. ISSN 2325-6893. S2CID 248826158. - Jourdan M. Saunders
• Soodalter, Ron (2010). Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. Atria Books. ISBN 9781416522928. - Nathanael Gordon
• Stephenson, Wendell (1938). Isaac Franklin: Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. - Isaac Franklin
• Tansey, Richard (1982). "Bernard Kendig and the New Orleans Slave Trade". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 23 (2): 159–178. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 4232168. - Bernard Kendig
• Trent, Hank (2017). The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University. ISBN 9780807165218. - Bacon Tait
• Winter, Kari J. (2011). The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader. Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820339535. JSTOR j.ctt46n9nn. LCCN 2010047425. OCLC 882236612. - John B. Prentis

Unpublished theses and dissertations

• Colby, Robert (2015). The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: The Virginia Slave Trade During the Civil War (Thesis). University of North Carolina. doi:10.17615/12QS-6B46. 
• Davila, Lauren (2023). Public Memory of the Domestic Slave Trade in Charleston, South Carolina (Thesis). College of Charleston. ProQuest 30424546.
• Fitzpatrick, Benjamin Lewis (December 2008). Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky (Ph.D. thesis). University of Notre Dame. doi:10.7274/pn89d50750n. 
• Gordon, Tiye (January 2015). The Fancy Trade and the Commodification of Rape in the Sexual Economy of 19th Century U.S. Slavery (Thesis).
• Kies, Tim (2018). Commodified Kin: Enslaved Families' Responses to the Antebellum Domestic Slave Trade in the Chesapeake (Thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/61175.
• Ridgeway, Michael A. (1976). A Peculiar Business: Slave Trading in Alexandria, Virginia, 1825–1861 (M.A. thesis). Georgetown University.
• Tadman, Michael (1977). Speculators and slaves in the old South: a study of the American domestic slave trade, 1820–1860 (Thesis). University of Hull.
• Troutman, Phillip Davis (August 2000). Slave Trade and Sentiment in Antebellum Virginia (Thesis). University of Virginia. doi:10.18130/v36d22.
• Yagyu, Tomoko (2006). Slave Traders and Planters in the Expanding South: Entrepreneurial Strategies, Business Networks, and Western Migration in the Atlantic World, 1787–1859 (PDF) (Thesis). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. doi:10.17615/vatj-2e80. 

Historic site and archaeology reports

• n.a. (2022). Forks of the Road - Natchez National Historical Park - Cultural Landscapes Inventory (PDF) (Report). U.S. National Park Service.
• Bedell, John; Kraus, Lisa; Decker, Charles Lee (January 2010). Archaeology of the Bruin Slave Jail (Site 44AX0172) (PDF) (Report). Office of Historic Alexandria - City of Alexandria, Virginia.
• Equal Justice Initiative (2018). Montgomery (Alabama) Slave Trade (Report). Equal Justice Initiative. pp. 31–49 – via JSTOR. (alt: eji.org - Montgomery Slave Trade)
• Skolnik, Benjamin A. (January 2021). 1315 Duke Street – Building and Property History (PDF) (Report). Office of Historic Alexandria - City of Alexandria, Virginia.

Selected newspaper and magazine articles

• n.a. (March 6, 1888). "A Landmark Going: The Old Slave Mart of Nashville to Be Demolished". Memphis Avalanche. Memphis, Tenn. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
• n.a. (May 24, 1884). "The Last of His Kind: Talk with an Old Slave-Seller Who Lags Superfluous on the Stage". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Mo. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
• n.a. (March 28, 1916). "Another Modern Building Will Occupy Site of Former Slave Depot". The Montgomery Times. Montgomery, Ala. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
• Bailey, Anne C. (February 12, 2020). "They Sold Human Beings Here". The New York Times. Photographs by Danielle Bowman. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
• Beale, Solon (August 22, 1855). Wheeler & Lynde (ed.). "The Slave Prisons of Baltimore". Bangor Daily Whig and Courier. Vol. XXII, no. 44. Bangor, Maine. p. 2.
• Calos, Katherine; Moomaw, Graham (February 23, 2014). "Special Report: Piecing Together Richmond's Slave Trade (Part 1 of 4)". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Virginia. pp. A1., "(Part 2 of 4)". pp. A10., "(Part 3 of 4)". pp. A11. & "(Part 4 of 4)". pp. A12.
• Fox, Lloyd (May 4, 2022). "Seeing the Unseen: Baltimore's slave trade". Baltimore Sun. Photographs by Amy Davis. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
• Hafner, Katherine (February 19, 2022). "Forgotten history of Hampton Roads slave trade recollected". The Virginian-Pilot. Norfolk, Va. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
• Kambourian, Elizabeth Cann (February 23, 2014). "Slave traders in Richmond (1819–1864)". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Virginia. pp. A12. (alt: "Slave traders in Richmond" at richmond.com)
• Rothman, Joshua D.; Skolnik, Benjamin (December 4, 2021). "The Brig Named Uncas: The story of an all-American slave ship". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
• Tiernan, Stanton (September 13, 1936). "Baltimore's Old Slave Markets: In 1835 the City Boasted a Dozen Well-Established Dealers". The Sunday Sun. The Baltimore Sun. Vol. 36-D. p. 10.

Primary sources

• Bowditch, William Ingersoll (1849). Slavery and the Constitution. Boston: R. F. Wallcut. LCCN 04030414. OCLC 4888406. OL 25408737M.
• Davies, Ebenezer (1849). American scenes and Christian slavery: a recent tour of four thousand miles in the United States. London: J. Snow. LCCN a15001618. OCLC 65316801. OL 5706830M.
• Goodell, William (1853). "Chapter II: The Slave Traffic". The American slave code in theory and practice: its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions and illustrative facts. New York, American and foreign anti-slavery society. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t7np25m2c. JSTOR community.35006805. LCCN 11008422. OCLC 221351046. OL 13512682M. 
• Jay, William (1844) . A View of the Action of the Federal Government, In Behalf of Slavery (Original publisher: New-York, J.S. Taylor). Appendix: The Amistad Case by Joshua Leavitt. Utica, N.Y.: J.C. Jackson for the New York State Anti-Slavery Society. LCCN 05023101. OCLC 8529817. 
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1853). A key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co. LCCN 02004230. OCLC 317690900. OL 21879838M. 
• Weld, Theodore D.; General Anti-slavery Convention (1841). Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America. Executive Committee of the American Anti-slavery Society. London: T. Ward. LCCN 05017902. OCLC 954281651. OL 7027374M. 

Outdated

Note: Outdated per Tadman in Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (2010).

• Collins, Winfield H. (1904). The Domestic Slave Trade of our Southern States. New York: Broadway Publishing. LCCN 04030987. OCLC 3109380. OL 5298638M.
• Phillips, Ulrich B. (1966) . American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. Foreword by Eugene D. Genovese (Reprint ed.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0807101094. LCCN 66031730. OL 13992719M.
• Phillips, Ulrich B. (2007) . Life and Labor in the Old South. Southern Classics Series. Introduction by John David Smith. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-678-1. LCCN 2006032556. OCLC 73926438.

Bibliographies

• Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography - Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving (virginia.edu)
• Bell, Richard (December 2013). "The Great Jugular Vein of Slavery: New Histories of the Domestic Slave Trade". History Compass. 11 (12): 1150–1164. doi:10.1111/hic3.12114. ISSN 1478-0542.
• Tadman, Michael (2010). "Chapter 28. Internal Slave Trades". In Smith, Mark M.; Paquette, Robert L. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford University Press. pp. 625–642. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0029. ISBN 9780191743979. LCCN 2010927240. OCLC 838126420. OL 28449640M.

See also

• List of American slave traders
• Historiography of the United States § Slavery and Black history
• List of bibliographies on American history
• Bibliography of slavery in the United States

References