Slavery & Slave Narratives

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

Photographs of Woodrow Nash's Children of Whitney statues and corresponding quotes from people who were enslaved in southeast Louisiana.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
by John Bardes (Author) Format: Paperback

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

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

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)