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

() 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

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.

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Unpublished theses and dissertations

Historic site and archaeology reports

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Selected newspaper and magazine articles

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19th-century sources

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Bibliographies and book reviews Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography –

See also List of abolitionist newspapers in the United States List of American slave traders

List of bibliographies on American history Bibliography of slavery in the United States List of publications of William Garrison and Isaac Knapp

References