Bibliography

Learn more about slavery and its lasting effects in America by exploring the source materials referenced in The Reckoning. Our bibliography contains many items that are available to read or download for free. If you choose to purchase any of the books through the links provided, as an Amazon Associate, our non-profit organization Reckoning, Inc. earns commissions from qualifying purchases.

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Episode 1: Hidden History
Episode 2: Sold Down The River
Episode 3: Recovering History
Episode 4: The Civil War
Episode 5: Aftermath
Episode 6: Lost Cause
Episode 7: Henrietta Wood
Episode 8: Zebulon Ward
Episode 9: Facing the Past

 

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery

Ager, Philipp. “The Persistence of de Facto Power: Elites and Economic Development in the US South, 1840-1960.” No 0038, Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society EHES,
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Alexander, Michelle. New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2020.

Andrews, Ethan A. Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade in the United States. Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836.
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Bailey, Fred Arthur. “The Textbooks of the ‘Lost Cause’: Censorship and the Creation of Southern State Histories.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 75, No. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 507- 533.
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Bailey, Ronald. “The Other Side of Slavery: Black Labor, Cotton, and Textile Industrialization in Great Britain and the United States.” Agricultural History 68, no. 2 (1994): 35-50.
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Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.

Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family: The Evolution of American Racial Relations. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Bancroft, Frederic. Slave Trading in the Old South. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1931.

Barkow, Rachel E. Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.

Bateman, David A., Katznelson, Ira, and Lapinski, John S. “Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.

Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh : The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. United States: Random House Inc, 2018.

Berry, Wendell. The Hidden Wound. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010.

Biss, Eula. Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2018.

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Breeden, James O. Advice Among Masters: The Ideal in Slave Management in the Old South. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Brown, Patricia L. “In a Barn, a Piece of Slavery’s Hidden Past.” The New York Times, May 6, 2003.

Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree.. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Darity, William and Mullen, Kirsten. “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century”. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Dattel, Eugene R. Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011.

Deyle, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. For an in-depth examination of local sales see chapter five.

Diangelo, Robin J. White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. London: Allen Lane, an Imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.

Downs, Jim.  Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Eaton, Clement. “Slave-Hiring in the Upper South: A Step Toward Freedom.”Journal of American History Volume 46, Issue 4, March 1960, Pages 663–678.
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Emdin, Christopher. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood – and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.

Fairbank, Calvin. “Exploits of Calvin Fairbank”. Manuscript, 1893. Wilbur H. Siebert Collection.

Featherstonhaugh, George W. Excursion Through the Slave States: From Washington on the Potomac, to the Frontier of Mexico. United Kingdom: J. Murray, 1844. Digitized by Google Books, 2006.
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Fernander, A., Duran, R., Saab, P. and Schneiderman, N. (2004). “John Henry Active Coping, Education, and Blood Pressure Among Urban Blacks”. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96(2), 246-255.

Fernander, A., Durán, R., Saab, P., Llabre, M. and Schneiderman, N. (2003) “Assessing the Reliability and Validity of the John Henry Scale for Active Coping Among an Urban Sample of African-Americans and White-Americans”. Ethnicity and Health, 8(2), 147-161.

Ford, Dionne, Jill Strauss, and Lucian K Truscott. Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation. London: Rutgers University Press, 2019.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.

Green, Keith M. Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015.

Gudmestad, Robert H. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2003.

Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. United Kingdom: Blackwell, 1976.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Lincoln, Slavery, and Kentucky.” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 106, no. 3/4 (2008): 571-604. Accessed May 13, 2020.
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Herivel, Tara, ed. and Paul Wright, ed. Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration. New York: New Press, 2007.

Huffman, Greg. “Twisted Sources: How Confederate Propaganda Ended Up In The South’s Schoolbooks”, Facing South, April 10, 2019

Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. United States: Pub. for the Author, 1861. Digitized by Google Books, 2007.
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Jaspin, Eliot. Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. United Kingdom: Basic Books, 2008.

Johnson, Walter, ed. The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004.

Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Jones, Jacqueline, and James Jones. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

Jones, Ricky L. Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015.

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019.

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. London: The Bodley Head, 2017.

Kennedy, V. L. Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Social Networks in the Old South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Kornweibel, Theodore. Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Leary, Joy D. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing; a Study Guide. Milwaukie, Oregon: Uptone Press, 2009.

Lewis, Ronald L. Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Lucas, Marion B.  Sherman and the Burning of Columbia. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976.

Mancini, Matthew J. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South,1866-1928. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

Martin, Bonnie. “Slavery’s Invisible Engine: Mortgaging Human Property.” The Journal of Southern History 76, no. 4 (2010): 817-66.
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McDaniel, W. Caleb. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press, 2017.

Murphy, Sharon A. “Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South”. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Economic History Workshop, May 1, 2017.

Murphy, Sharon A. Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Neal, Anthony W. Unburdened by Conscience: A Black People’s Collective Account of America’s Ante-Bellum South and the Aftermath. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Page, Thomas N. The Negro: The Southerner’s Problem. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Digitized by Google Books, 2009.
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Patterson, William L. We Charge Genocide, The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People. New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1952.
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Percy, William A. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son. New York: Knopf, 1941.
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Peters, Pamela R. The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. United Kingdom: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2001.

Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. London: Penguin Books, 2015.

Roberts, Blain and Ethan J. Kytle. Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy. New York: The New Press, 2018.

Rothman, Joshua D. Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Rothman, Joshua D. Reforming America, 1815-1860. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.

Russell, Thomas D. “South Carolina’s Largest Slave Auctioneering Firm.” Chicago-Kent Law Review, no. 68 (1993).
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Russell, Thomas D. “Articles Sell Best Singly: The Disruption of Slave Families at Court Sales.” Utah Law Review, Vol. 1996, p. 1161-1209, 1996.
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Saad, Layla F. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. Napreville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2020.

Scarborough, William K. Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003, 2006.
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Scott, A.H. “Penitentiary Investigation,” The Arkansas Democrat, March 21, 1879. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34873777/penitentiary-investigation-arkansas/

Schermerhorn, Calvin, and Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2015.

Schipper, Martin P., Charles B. Dew, and Randolph Boehm. Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1991.
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Schwartz, Marie J. Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Sommerville, Diane M. Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Stampp, Kenneth. Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1956.

Stephenson, Wendell H. Isaac Franklin, Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1938.

Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014.

Streets, David H. Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.

Strickland, Jeff. The American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 19th-Century Racial Pseudoscience, and the False Assessment of Black America, 1863–1864.
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Sublette, Ned, and Constance Sublette. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding. Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2017.

Sublette, Ned. The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008.

Sutch, Richard C. “The Breeding of Slaves for sale and the westward expansion of slavery, 1850-1860.” Institute of Business and Economic Research, No. 10. Berkeley: University of California,1972.
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Tadman, Michael. Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Tatum, Beverly. “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: And Other Conversations about Race. New York: Basic Books, 2017.

Taylor, Yuval., ed. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives Vol. II, 1849-1866. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.

Villanueva, Edgar. Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018.

Wayne, Michael. The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District 1860-1880 Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

White, Richard. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 Oxford History of the United States. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Random House, 2016.

Williams, Heather A. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Williams, Heather A. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Williams, Kidada E. They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. New York: NYU Press, 2012.

Williams, Joel. The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. New York: Penguin Group, 2014.

Woolfolk, George R. “Taxes and Slavery in the Ante Bellum South.” The Journal of Southern History 26, no. 2 (1960): 180-200. Accessed May 12, 2020. doi:10.2307/2955182.
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Yagyu, Tomoku. 2006. Slave Traders and Planters In the Expanding South: Entrepreneurial Strategies, Business Networks, and Western Migration In the Atlantic World, 1787-1859.
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Yetman, Norman R. “The Background of the Slave Narrative Collection.” American Quarterly 19, no. 3 (1967): 534–53.
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Zaborney, John J. Slaves for Hire: Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

Adams, Luther. Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Anderson, Robert. From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave. Hemingford, Neb: The Hemingford ledger, 1927.

Andrews, Susan C., and James P. Fenton. “Archaeology and the Invisible Man: The Role of Slavery in the Production of Wealth and Social Class in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, 1820 to 1870.” World Archaeology 33, no. 1 (2001): 115-36. Accessed May 12, 2020.
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Barton, Keith C. “‘Good Cooks and Washers’: Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky.” The Journal of American History 84, no. 2 (1997): 436-60. doi:10.2307/2952566.

Bigham, Darrel E.  On Jordan’s Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Browning, Orville H.  The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. Chicago: Blakely Printing Company, 1927.
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Bruner, Peter.  A Slave’s Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle. Oxford, Ohio: 1918.
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Bullitt, Thomas W.  My Life at Oxmoor; Life on a Farm in Kentucky Before the War. Louisville: Filson, 1911.
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Bush, Bryan S. Louisville and the Civil War: A History and Guide. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2008.

Carlton, A.B. The Law of Homicide, Together With the Trial for Murder of Judge Wilkinson, Dr. Wilkinson and Mr. Murdaugh: Including the Indictments, Evidence and Speeches of Hon. S. S. Prentiss, Hon. Benjamin Hardin, E. J. Bullock, Esq. Judge Rowan, Col. Robertson, and John B. Thompson, Esq. Of Counsel in Full. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co.,1923.

Clark, Thomas D. Kentucky: Land of Contrasts. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

Clark, Thomas D. “The Slave trade between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 21, issue 3 (Dec., 1934), pp.331-342. DOI: 10.2307/1897378
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Coleman, J Winston.  Slavery Times in Kentucky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940.

Coleman, J. Winston. “Lexington’s Slave Dealers and Their Southern Trade.” The Filson Club History Quarterly 12, no. 1 (1938).

Courier-Journal Job Printing Company., ed. “A Confederate War Record.” The Lost Cause, No. 4 (1898): 41.

Crenshaw, Littleberry P. Memoir of Mrs. Edmonia Hawkins Crenshaw: Wife of Rev. L.P. Crenshaw, of the Louisville Conference. Detroit: Hanna Co., 1863.

Duke, Basil W. History of the Bank of Kentucky, 1792-1895: Including an Interesting Account of Early Banking. New York: J.P. Morton Co., 1895.

Fedric, Francis. Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; by Francis Fedric, an Escaped Slave. London: Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt, 1863. 
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Fitzpatrick, Benjamin. “Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky.” PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 2010.
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Forehand, Beverly. Striking Resemblance: Kentucky, Tennessee, Black Codes and Readjustment, 1865-1866. (1996). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 868.
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Gibson, William H., Sr.  Historical Sketches of the Progress of the Colored Race in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville: Bradley Gilbert Company, 1897.

Green, Elisha W. Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green, Written by Himself. Maysville, Kentucky: The Republican Printing Office, 1888.  Electronic Edition part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
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Hambleton Tapp, “The Slavery Controversy Between Robert Wickliffe and Robert J. Breckinridge Prior to the Civil War.” Filson Quarterly, XVIX, 156-69. Louisville: Filson Club (1945)

Harlow, Luke E. Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Harrison, Lowell H. Lincoln, Slavery, and Kentucky. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 106, no. 3/4 (2008): 571-604. Accessed May 13, 2020.
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Harrison, Lowell H.  The Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988.

Howard, Victor B. Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Ireland, Robert M. The County Courts in Antebellum Kentucky.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

James, Thomas. “The Autobiography of Rev. Thomas James.” Rochester History, XXXVII 1975: 1-32.

Johnson, Isaac. Slavery Days in Old Kentucky: A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children, By One of the Children. Ogdensburg, N.Y.: Republican Journal Print,1901.  Electronic Edition part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
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Louisville Daily Union Press., January 20, 1865. Volume 1. Louisville, Kentucky, 1864-1865.  Kentucky Digital Newspapers Program.

King, Junie E.S. Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories, Copied from Original and Recorded Wills and Inventories. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1961

Klotter, James C., Friend, Craig Thompson. A New History of Kentucky. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2018.

Klotter, Freda C. and Klotter, James C. A Concise History of Kentucky. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Lewis, Patrick. For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War. University Press of Kentucky, Mar 9, 2015

Lucas, Marion B.  A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891. Second ed. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 2003.

Marrs, Elijah P.   Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author. Louisville, Kentucky: The Bradley and Gilbert Company, 1885. Electronic Edition part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
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Marshall, Anne. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

McDougle, Ivan E. Slavery in Kentucky, 1792-1865. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Press of the New Era Printing Company, 1918. Digitized by Google Books, 2006.
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McDowell, Robert E. City of Conflict: Louisville in the Civil War, 1861-1865. Louisville Kentucky: Civil War Roundtable, 1962.

Messmer,Charles. “City in Conflict: A History of Louisville, Kentucky, 1860-1865.” Master’s thesis, University of Louisville, 1953.

Ramage, James A. and Watkins, Andrea S. Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011.

Runyon, Randolph P.  Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

“Slavery in Louisville.” The Louisville Times, Sept 23, 1978

Smith, Harry. Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America. Grand Rapids, Michigan: West Michigan Print. Co., 1891.
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Tallant, Harold D. Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Townsend, William H. Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.

Weeden, Henry C. Weeden’s History of the Colored People of Louisville. Louisville: H. C. Weeden, 1897.  
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Wilson, George D. A Century of Negro Education in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville: Louisville Municipal College, 1941.  Library Locations provided by NKAA.uky.edu

Wright, George C. A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980 (Kentucky Historical Society)

Wright, George C. Life Behind a Veil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Wright, George C. Racial Violence in Kentucky 1865-1940 : Lynchings, Mob Rule, and Legal Lynchings.” Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1996.‌

Yater, George H. Two Hundred Years at the Falls of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County. Louisville, Kentucky: The Filson Club, 1987.

Young, Amy L. and Young, J. Blaine Hundson. “Slave Life at Oxmoor”, Filson Club History Quarterly, Summer 2000, Vol. 74, NO. 3.
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Butler, Octavia. Kindred. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.

Coates, TaNehisi. The Water Dancer : A Novel. New York: One World, 2019.

‌Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. New York: Penguin Random House, 2016.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Picoult, Jodi. Small Great Things: A Novel. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2018.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. London: Cassell, 1852.

Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. London: Walker Books And Subsidiaries, 2018.

Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. New York: Anchor Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.