Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States
"Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne , published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)
This is a bibliography of works regarding the internal or domestic slave trade in the United States (1776–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves ).
General
Bancroft, Frederic (2023) [1931, 1996]. 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 (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 .
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) [1999]. 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 .
McDaniel, W. Caleb (2019). Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-084699-2 . LCCN 2018047090 . OCLC 1078955238 .
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). The MIT Press: 57–85. doi :10.2307/206166 . ISSN 0022-1953 . 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 (inactive November 13, 2024). S2CID 154462144 . {{cite journal }}
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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 (2016). "Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest". In Rockman, Seth Edward; Beckert, Sven (eds.). Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development . Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 209–224. doi :10.9783/9780812293098-011 . ISBN 978-0-8122-4841-8 . JSTOR j.ctt1dfnrs7 . LCCN 2016304619 . OCLC 945028802 .
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) [1989]. 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 .
Clark, T. D. (December 1934). "The Slave Trade between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom" . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review . 21 (3). Urbana, Illinois: Mississippi Valley Historical Association: 331–342. doi :10.2307/1897378 . ISSN 0161-391X . JSTOR 1897378 . OCLC 35781793 .
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 .
Finley, Alexandra (September 2017). " 'Cash to Corinna': Domestic Labor and Sexual Economy in the 'Fancy Trade' ". The Journal of American History . 104 (2): 410–430. doi :10.1093/jahist/jax174 .
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 .
Flanders, Ralph Betts (1933). "Chapter VIII. The Acquisition and Hire of slaves". Plantation Slavery in Georgia . Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press. LCCN 33037653 . OCLC 9876467 .
Heier, Jan Richard (March 2010). "Accounting for the Business of Suffering: A Study of the Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, Slave Trade". Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance, and Business Studies . 46 (1): 60–83. doi :10.1111/j.1467-6281.2010.00306.x .
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 .
Jones, William D. (2021). "Beyond New Orleans: Forced Migrations To, From, and In Louisiana, 1820–1860" . Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association . 62 (4): 429–468. ISSN 0024-6816 . JSTOR 27095320 .
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 .
Laprade, William T. (January 1926). "The Domestic Slave Trade in the District of Columbia" . The Journal of Negro History . 11 (1): 17–34. doi :10.2307/2714021 . ISSN 0022-2992 . JSTOR 2714021 .
Lucas, Marion B. (2014) [1992]. "Chapter 4. The Slave Trade". A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760–1891 (2nd ed.). Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society. doi :10.2307/j.ctt1w76tk3 . ISBN 9780813159775 . JSTOR j.ctt1w76tk3 . OCLC 1007290645 . Project MUSE book 56781 .
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) [1957]. "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 .
Rucker, Paul (March 2016). "Slave Traders in Baltimore: Location Information" (PDF) . In Light of History . 1 (1). Baltimore: Reginald F. Lewis Museum: 2–3.
Rupprecht, Anita (September 2019). "Black Atlantic maritime networks, resistance and the American 'domestic' slave trade" . Global Networks . 19 (4): 458–476. doi :10.1111/glob.12209 . ISSN 1470-2266 .
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) [1950]. "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 .
Trammell, Jack (2012). The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion . The History Press . ISBN 978-1-60949-413-1 .
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) [1994]. 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
Westmoreland, Carl B. (2015). "The John W. Anderson Slave Pen" . Freedom Center Journal . University of Cincinnati College of Law. ISSN 1942-5856 . Volume 2015, Issue 1, Article 3. - John W. Anderson
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 .
Finley, Alexandra Jolyn (2017). Blood Money: Sex, Family, and Finance in the Antebellum Slave Trade (Thesis). College of William & Mary. doi :10.21220/S2FH3D . Paper 1499450046.
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
"...all these negroes are lately from Baltimore and its vicinity... " Natchez Gazette , May 4, 1822
Selected newspaper and magazine articles
Slave pen of "Nigger Trader White " on Main Street Lexington, Missouri , newspaper illustration 1908[ 1]
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 .
Rothman, Joshua D. (October 6, 2021). "How the brutal trade in enslaved people has been whitewashed out of U.S. history" . Opinion. Pennsylvania Capital-Star .
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
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Armistead, Wilson, ed. (1853). Five hundred thousand strokes for freedom: a series of anti-slavery tracts . Reprints of nos. 1-82 of the Leeds anti-slavery series. London: W. & F. Cash. LCCN 05023103 . OCLC 7021926 . archive: fivehundredthous00armi .
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) [1839]. 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 Dwight ; Grimké, Angelina ; Grimké, Sarah Moore (1839). American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses . American Anti-Slavery Society. New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, office, no. 143 Nassau Street. LCCN 11008377 . OCLC 14906369 . OL 20509019M .
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 .
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