Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States explained

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

Book: Bancroft, Frederic . . 2023 . Frederic Bancroft . University of South Carolina Press . Reprint . Southern Classics Series . Columbia, S.C. . en-us . Original publisher: J. H. Fürst Co., Baltimore . 1931, 1996 . 978-1-64336-427-8 . 1153619151 . 95020493 . Introduction by Michael Tadman .
Book: Baptist, Edward E. . Edward E. Baptist . The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . Basic Books . 2014 . New York . 978-0-465-00296-2 . 885121937 . 2017302300 . en-us.
Book: Berry, Daina Ramey. Daina Ramey Berry . 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. 2017 . 9780807047637 . 970030444 . 26888279M . 2016014894 .
Cabot . Andy . 2020-12-31 . "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 . 10.4000/1718.6037 . 234415270 . 0291-3798. free .
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:
Cheathem . Mark Renfred . 2007 . The Domestic Slave Trade and the United States Constitution . Reviews in American History . en . 35 . 3 . 374–379 . 10.1353/rah.2007.0048 . 143736923 . 1080-6628.
Book: Conrad, Robert Edgar . In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union . 978-0-271-02343-4 . 2001 . Penn State University Press.
Book: Dew, Charles B. . Charles B. Dew . The making of a racist: a southerner reflects on family, history, and the slave trade . University of Virginia Press . 2016 . 9780813938882 . Charlottesville . 956713856 . en-us . 2015043815 .
Deyle . Steven . Spring 1992 . "The Irony of Liberty: Origins of the Domestic Slave Trade" . Journal of the Early Republic . 12 . 1 . 37–62 . 10.2307/3123975. 3123975 .
Book: Deyle, Steven H. . Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life . 978-0195160406 . New York . en-us . 2004056840 . 61342034 . 7390529M . 2005 . Oxford University Press.
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 . Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture . 66 . 4 . 833–850 . 40467543 . 0043-5597.
Book: Deyle, Steven . The Old South's modern worlds : slavery, region, and nation in the age of progress . Oxford University Press . 2010 . 9780199840960 . Barnes . L. Diane . en-us . 5. Rethinking the Slave Trade: Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South . 721907202 . Schoen . Brian . Towers . Frank.
Book: Finley, Alexandra J. . An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade . 2020 . University of North Carolina Press . Chapel Hill, N.C. . en-us . 10.5149/9781469655130_finley . 2019052078 . 1194871275 . . 9781469655123.
Freudenberger . Herman . Pritchett . Jonathan B. . Winter 1991 . The Domestic United States Slave Trade: New Evidence . Journal of Interdisciplinary History . 21 . 3 . 447 . 10.2307/204955. 204955 .
Book: Gudmestad, Robert H. . A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade . 2003. Louisiana State University Press . Baton Rouge . 9780807129227.
- 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
Book: Gutman . H. G. . Sutch . R. . The Slave Family: Protected Agent of Capitalist Masters or Victim of the Slave Trade? . Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery . David . Paul A. . 214–255 . New York . Oxford University Press . 1976 . 9780195020335 . 2301195.
Book: Hilliard, Kathleen M. . Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South . Cambridge Studies on the American South . 978-1107636644 . Cambridge University Press . 2013.
Book: The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas . Walter . Johnson. The David Brion Davis Series . 9780300103557 . 2005 . Yale University Press.
Book: Johnson, Walter . Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market . Harvard University Press . Cambridge . 2009 . 9780674039155 . 10.4159/9780674039155 . 99-046696 . 923120203 . Walter Johnson (historian) . 1999 . en-us .
Book: Johnson, Walter . Walter Johnson . River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom . 2013 . Cambridge . en-us . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 9780674074880 . 2012030065 . 827947225 . 26179618M .
Kotlikoff . Laurence J. . Laurence Kotlikoff . Pinera . Sebastian . June 1977 . The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of Slaves, 1850–1860 . The Journal of Economic History . en . 37 . 2 . 434–450 . 10.1017/S002205070009700X . 153416059 . 0022-0507.
Kotlikoff . Laurence J. . Laurence Kotlikoff . October 1979 . The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans, 1804–1862 . 17 . 4 . 496–518 . 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1979.tb00544.x . 1465-7295 . none . Economic Inquiry.
Lightner . David L. . Spring 2002 . The Founders and the Interstate Slave Trade . Journal of the Early Republic . 22 . 1 . 25–51 . 10.2307/3124856. 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 . en . 29 . 3 . 229–253 . 10.1111/j.1059-4329.2004.00084.x . 143223298 . 1059-4329.
Book: Lightner, David L. . Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War . Yale University Press . 2006 . New Haven, CT . 0-300-11470-2 . 10.12987/9780300135169 . 262482327 . 1024037256.
Book: McDaniel, W. Caleb . W. Caleb McDaniel . . 2019 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-084699-2 . 1078955238 . 2018047090 . New York.
Book: McInnis, Maurie D. . Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade . Maurie D. McInnis . 2013 . University of Chicago Press . 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 . 0022-1953 . The MIT Press . 10.2307/206166 . 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 . 10.1017/S002205070102808X. 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 . Capitalism's Captives: The Maritime United States Slave Trade, 1807–1850. Journal of Social History. 47. 4 . 2014. 897–921. 10.1093/jsh/shu029 . 43308821 .
Book: Schermerhorn, Calvin . The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 . 2015 . Yale University Press . New Haven, Conn. . en-us . 10.12987/9780300213898 . j.ctt1bh4d2w . 2014036403 . 890614581 . 978-0-300-19200-1 .
Book: Schermerhorn, Calvin . Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story . 9780820356495 . Bond . Beverly Greene . Chapter 2: 'Cash for Slaves' The African American Trail of Tears . O'Donovan . Susan Eva . 2020 . University of Georgia Press.
Sherwin . Oscar . Trading in Negroes . Negro History Bulletin . April 1945 . 8 . 7 . 160–166 . 44214396 .
Book: Spears, John R. . John Randolph Spears . The American slave-trade: an account of its origin, growth and suppression . Chapter XVII: Tales of the Coastwise Slave Trade . . 1900 . Charles Scribner's Sons . New York . en-us. 23379348M . 67027654 . 421515.
Book: Stampp, Kenneth Milton . Kenneth M. Stamp . http://archive.org/details/peculiarinstitut00stam . The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South . 1956 . Alfred A. Knopf . New York. Internet Archive . 237–278 . Chapter Six: Slavemongering.
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 . en . 73 . 3 . 792–809 . 10.1017/S0022050713000612 . 0022-0507.
Book: Tadman, Michael . Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South . 1996. 1989 . University of Wisconsin Press . 2nd . 9780299118549 . 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 . en . 8 . 3 . 247–271 . 10.1080/14664650701505117 . 144552462 . 1466-4658.
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. . Hidden in Plain Sight: Centering the Domestic Slave Trade in American Public History . The Journal of Southern History. 2013 . 79 . 3 . 593–624 . 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 . 44212391 . 0028-2529 . .
Clark . T. D. . December 1934 . The Slave Trade between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review . 21 . 3 . 331–342 . 10.2307/1897378 . Mississippi Valley Historical Association . Urbana, Illinois . 0161-391X . 35781793 . 1897378.
Book: Colby, Robert . Business of Emotions in Modern History . 2023 . Bloomsbury Academic . 978-1-3502-6249-2 . Cooper . Mandy L. . London . 219–239 . Chapter 11: Waiting for Fevers to Abate: The Contagion and Fear in the Domestic Slave Trade . 10.5040/9781350268876.ch-11 . 1294194709 . Popp . Andrew .
Book: Colby, Robert K. D. . An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South . Oxford University Press . 2024 . 9780197578285 . 2023053721 . 1412042395 . 10.1093/oso/9780197578261.001.0001 .
Book: Coleman, J. Winston . Slavery times in Kentucky . University of North Carolina Press . 1940 . Chapel Hill, N.C. . 142–217 . en-us . Chapter VI: 'Niggah Tradahs' & Chapter VII: Down the River & Chapter VIII: 'Nigger Stealers' .
Corrigan . Mary Beth . 2001 . Imaginary Cruelties? A History of the Slave Trade in Washington, D.C. . Washington History . 13 . 2 . 4–27 . 40073372 . 1042-9719.
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 . 10.2307/2205824 . 2205824 . 0022-4642.
DeGraft-Hanson . Kwesi . 2010-02-18 . Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale . Southern Spaces . 2010 . 10.18737/M76K6J . 1551-2754 . free.
Finkelman . Paul . 2008 . Regulating the African Slave Trade . Civil War History . en . 54 . 4 . 379–405 . 10.1353/cwh.0.0034 . 143987356 . 1533-6271.
Book: 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 . 9876467 . 33037653 .
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 . 10.2307/2567914 . 2567914.
Kendall . John S. . Shadow Over the City . The Louisiana Historical Quarterly. 22 . 1 . January 1939 . 142–165 . LDS Film 1425689, Image Group Number (DGS) 1640025. 0095-5949 . 1782268 . . New Orleans . .
Book: Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. . Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie . Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade . Cambridge University Press . 2019 . 9781108616324 . Cambridge . en-us . 10.1017/9781108616324 . 166472669 . 2018043005 . 1055433726.
Laprade . William T. . January 1926 . The Domestic Slave Trade in the District of Columbia . The Journal of Negro History . en . 11 . 1 . 17–34 . 10.2307/2714021 . 0022-2992.
Book: Lucas, Marion B. . A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760–1891 . Kentucky Historical Society . 2014 . 9780813159775 . 2nd . Frankfort, Kentucky . Chapter 4. The Slave Trade . 10.2307/j.ctt1w76tk3 . j.ctt1w76tk3 . 1007290645 . . 1992.
Marks . John . 2007 . Abdication and Acceptance: Slave-Trading in Antebellum Lynchburg . Agora . 16 . 12 . Article 16 . Lynchburg College.
Book: Broke by the War: Letters of a Slave Trader . A. J.. McElveen . Ziba B.. Oakes . Ziba B. Oakes. Edmond Lee . Drago . 2010 . University of South Carolina Press. 978-1570039423.
McInnis . Maurie D. . Maurie D. McInnis . Mapping the slave trade in Richmond and New Orleans . Building & Landscapes . 20 . 2 . 10.5749/buildland.20.2.0102 . 10.5749/buildland.20.2.0102 . . Fall 2013 . 102–125 . 160472953 . registration.
Book: Mooney, Chase C. . 1971 . Slavery in Tennessee . Reprint . Indiana University Publications, Social Science Series No. 17 . Westport, Conn. . Negro Universities Press . Chapter Two: Hire, Sale, Theft and Flight of Slaves . 609222448 . Chase C. Mooney . 1957 . https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002020263&seq=45 . . en-us.
Rucker . Paul . In Light of History . Slave Traders in Baltimore: Location Information . March 2016 . 1 . 1 . 2–3 . Reginald F. Lewis Museum . Baltimore .
Schermerhorn . Calvin . 2015-10-02 . Slave Trading in a Republic of Credit: Financial Architecture of the US Slave Market, 1815–1840 . Slavery & Abolition . en . 36 . 4 . 586–602 . 10.1080/0144039X.2015.1049004 . 146765520 . 0144-039X.
Book: Sellers, James Benson . Slavery in Alabama . Library of Alabama Classics . Chapter 5: Traffic in Slaves . Introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss . 9780817389147 . 899157440 . 2015 . 1950 . University of Alabama Press . Tuscaloosa . 50004433.
Tadman. Michael . 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. 1996. 6–29. 27570133 .
Book: Trexler, Harrison Anthony . Slavery in Missouri, 1804–1865 . Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science . XXXIII . 2 . Baltimore . The Johns Hopkins Press . 1914 . 14013126 . 44–53 .
Williams . Jennie K. . 2020-04-02 . Trouble the water: The Baltimore to New Orleans coastwise slave trade, 1820–1860 . Slavery & Abolition . en . 41 . 2 . 275–303 . 10.1080/0144039X.2019.1660509 . 203494471 . 0144-039X.
Book: Wilson, Carol . Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780–1865 . University Press of Kentucky . 2009 . 9780813149790 . j.ctt130j5m9 . 93021012 . 900344359 . 1994.

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 . en . 23 . 3 . 195–211 . 10.1353/cwh.1977.0041 . 143907436 . 1533-6271. - Austin Woolfolk
Book: Forret, Jeff . Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts . Cambridge University Press . 10.1017/9781108651912 . 2020 . 9781108651912 . 240924397. - Thomas Williams and William H. Williams
Gudmestad. Robert H. . The Troubled Legacy of Isaac Franklin: The Enterprise of Slave Trading. Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 62. 3. 2003. 193–217. 42627764 . - Isaac Franklin
Howell . Isabel . 1943 . John Armfield, Slave-trader . Tennessee Historical Quarterly . 2 . 1 . 3–29 . 42620772 . 0040-3261. - John Armfield
Huebner . Timothy S. . Timothy S. Huebner . March 2023 . Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest . . en-us . 69 . 1 . 42–75 . 10.1353/cwh.2023.0009 . 256599213 . . 1533-6271 . - N. B. Forrest
Book: Rothman, Joshua D. . The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America . Basic Books . 2021 . 9781541616592 . 2020038845. - Franklin & Armfield
Rothman . Joshua D. . May 2022 . The American Life of Jourdan Saunders, Slave Trader . Journal of Southern History . en . 88 . 2 . 227–256 . 10.1353/soh.2022.0054 . 248826158 . 2325-6893. - Jourdan M. Saunders
Book: Soodalter, Ron . Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. 2010. 9781416522928. Atria Books. - Nathanael Gordon
Book: Stephenson, Wendell. Isaac Franklin: Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South. Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 1938. - 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 . 4232168 . 0024-6816. - Bernard Kendig
Book: Trent, Hank. The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color. 2017 . Louisiana State University . Baton Rouge . 9780807165218. - Bacon Tait
Book: Winter, Kari J.. The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader. Athens, Ga.. University of Georgia Press. 2011 . Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900. 9780820339535 . 882236612. j.ctt46n9nn. 2010047425 . en-us. - John B. Prentis
Westmoreland . Carl B. . 2015 . The John W. Anderson Slave Pen . Freedom Center Journal . Volume 2015, Issue 1, Article 3 . University of Cincinnati College of Law . 1942-5856 . - John W. Anderson

Unpublished theses and dissertations

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

Historic site and archaeology reports

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

Selected newspaper and magazine articles

News: n.a. . 1888-03-06 . A Landmark Going: The Old Slave Mart of Nashville to Be Demolished . 1 . Memphis Avalanche . Memphis, Tenn. . Newspapers.com . en-us .
News: n.a. . 1884-05-24 . The Last of His Kind: Talk with an Old Slave-Seller Who Lags Superfluous on the Stage . en-us . 12 . St. Louis Globe-Democrat . St. Louis, Mo. . 2023-08-18.
News: n.a. . 1916-03-28 . Another Modern Building Will Occupy Site of Former Slave Depot . 1 . The Montgomery Times . Montgomery, Ala. . Newspapers.com . en-us .
News: Bailey . Anne C. . Photographs by Danielle Bowman . 2020-02-12 . They Sold Human Beings Here . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-12-03 . 0362-4331.
News: Beale . Solon . 1855-08-22 . The Slave Prisons of Baltimore . XXII . 2 . Bangor Daily Whig and Courier . 44 . Wheeler & Lynde . Bangor, Maine .
News: Calos . Katherine . Moomaw . Graham . 2014-02-23 . Special Report: Piecing Together Richmond's Slave Trade (Part 1 of 4) . A1 . Richmond Times-Dispatch . Virginia ., News: (Part 2 of 4) . A10 ., News: (Part 3 of 4) . A11 . & News: (Part 4 of 4) . A12 .
Web site: Fox . Lloyd . 2022-05-04 . Photographs by Amy Davis . Seeing the Unseen: Baltimore's slave trade . 2023-12-03 . Baltimore Sun . en-US.
Web site: Hafner . Katherine . 2022-02-19 . Forgotten history of Hampton Roads slave trade recollected . 2023-12-03 . The Virginian-Pilot . Norfolk, Va. . en-us .
News: Kambourian . Elizabeth Cann . 2014-02-23 . Slave traders in Richmond (1819–1864) . A12 . Richmond Times-Dispatch . Virginia . (alt:)
News: Rothman . Joshua D. . Skolnik . Benjamin . 2021-12-04 . The Brig Named Uncas: The story of an all-American slave ship . en-US . Slate . 2024-01-03 . 1091-2339.
Web site: Rothman . Joshua D. . 2021-10-06 . How the brutal trade in enslaved people has been whitewashed out of U.S. history . Opinion . Pennsylvania Capital-Star . en-US.
News: Tiernan . Stanton . 1936-09-13 . Baltimore's Old Slave Markets: In 1835 the City Boasted a Dozen Well-Established Dealers . 36-D . 10 . The Baltimore Sun . The Sunday Sun .

Primary sources

Book: Andrews, E. A. . Ethan Allen Andrews (lexicographer) . American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race . 1836 . Slavery and the domestic slave-trade in the United States: In a series of letters addressed to the Executive committee of the American union for the relief and improvement of the colored race . Boston . Light and Stearns .
Book: Armistead . Wilson . 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 . 05023103 . 7021926 . archive: fivehundredthous00armi.
Book: Bowditch, William Ingersoll . 1849 . Slavery and the Constitution . Boston . R. F. Wallcut . 4888406 . 04030414 . 25408737M . William I. Bowditch.
Book: Davies, Ebenezer . 1849 . American scenes and Christian slavery: a recent tour of four thousand miles in the United States . London . J. Snow. . a15001618 . 65316801 . 5706830M .
Book: Goodell, William . William Goodell (abolitionist) . The American slave code in theory and practice: its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions and illustrative facts . Chapter II: The Slave Traffic . New York, American and foreign anti-slavery society . 1853 . en . 13512682M . 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t7np25m2c . community.35006805 . 11008422 . 221351046.
Book: Jay, William . A View of the Action of the Federal Government, In Behalf of Slavery . . . 1844 . Utica, N.Y. . en-us . Original publisher: New-York, J.S. Taylor . 05023101 . 8529817 . William Jay (jurist) . 1839.
Book: Stowe, Harriet Beecher . . J. P. Jewett & Co. . 1853 . Boston . en-us . 02004230 . 317690900 . 21879838M . Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Book: Weld . Theodore D. . Theodore Weld . General Anti-slavery Convention . Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America . Executive Committee of the American Anti-slavery Society. . London . en-us . T. Ward . 1841 . 954281651 . OL7027374M . 05017902 .

Outdated

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

Book: Collins, Winfield H. . Winfield H. Collins . The Domestic Slave Trade of our Southern States . New York . Broadway Publishing . 1904 . 04030987 . 3109380 . 5298638M.
Book: Phillips, Ulrich B. . Ulrich Bonnell Phillips . American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime . Reprint . Baton Rouge . en-us . 66031730 . 1918 . Louisiana State University Press . . 1966 . 978-0807101094 . 13992719M.
Book: Phillips, Ulrich B. . Ulrich Bonnell Phillips . Life and Labor in the Old South . Introduction by John David Smith. Columbia, S.C. . University of South Carolina Press . 2007. 1929 . Southern Classics Series . 2006032556 . 73926438 . 978-1-57003-678-1.

Bibliographies and book reviews

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Bell . Richard . December 2013 . The Great Jugular Vein of Slavery: New Histories of the Domestic Slave Trade . History Compass . en . 11 . 12 . 1150–1164 . 10.1111/hic3.12114 . 1478-0542.
McDaniel . W. Caleb . 2023-12-05 . The Slave Traders' Economy . The American Historical Review . en . 128 . 4 . 1814–1817 . 10.1093/ahr/rhad465 . 0002-8762.
Book: Tadman, Michael . The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas . 2010 . Oxford University Press . Smith . Mark M. . en . Chapter 28. Internal Slave Trades . Oxford Handbooks in History . 625–642 . 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0029 . 9780191743979 . 838126420 . 28449640M . 2010927240 . Paquette . Robert L..