Slavery & Slave Narratives

A booklet containing information about the museum, photographs of Woodrow Nash's Children of Whitney statues, and corresponding quotes from people who were enslaved in southeast Louisiana.

Bouki Fait Gombo Paperback – August 27, 2014
by Ibrahima Seck

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations (Real Voices, Real History) Paperback – June 3, 2014
by Lynette Ater Tanner

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Revised Edition
by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

How The Word is Passed - June 1, 2021
by Clint Smith
who visits Whitney in Chapter 2

Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) Paperback – January 18, 2018
by Rashauna Johnson

The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860 Paperback – February 1, 2007
by Richard Follett

Twelve Years a Slave (Dover Thrift Editions) Paperback – March 19, 2014
by Solomon Northup

Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) Paperback – August 1, 2021
by Sophie White (Author)

Scars on the Land Hardcover - April 12, 2022 by David Silkenat

Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization Paperback
by Arnold R. Hirsch (Editor), Joseph Logsdon (Editor)