Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States

For a bibliography of the general topic of American chattel slavery, see Bibliography of slavery 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).

"Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)

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). 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) [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.
• 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) [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.
• 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) [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. 
• 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.
• 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

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

Slave pen of "Nigger Trader White" on Main Street Lexington, Missouri, newspaper illustration 1908

• 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) [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 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) [1918]. 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) [1929]. 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