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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 (1776–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves).

General

  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • Wesley, C. H. “Manifests of Slave Shipments Along the Waterways, 1808–1864.” Journal of Negro History 27, no. 2 (1942): 155–174

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

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Specific traders and trading companies

  • – Austin Woolfolk
  • – Thomas Williams and William H. Williams
  • – Isaac Franklin
  • – John Armfield
  • – N. B. Forrest
  • – Franklin & Armfield
  • – Jourdan M. Saunders
  • – Nathanael Gordon
  • – Isaac Franklin
  • – Bernard Kendig
  • – Bacon Tait
  • – John B. Prentis
  • – John W. Anderson

Unpublished theses and dissertations

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Historic site and archaeology reports

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Selected newspaper and magazine articles

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Primary sources

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Outdated

Note: Outdated per Tadman in Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (2010).

Bibliographies and book reviews

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See also

References