A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution, by Andrew Lawler.
American Slavery, American Freedom, by Edmund S. Morgan.
Angela: Jamestown and the First Africans, by David Givens, et al.
Arrival of The First Africans in Virginia, by Ric Murphy.
Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom, by Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth.
Defenders of Liberty: African Americans in the Revolutionary War, by Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning.
Down From The Mountain: The Oral History of the Hemings Family, by Judith Justus.
Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello, by Lucia Stanton.
Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740, by Anthony S. Parent Jr.
In The Shadow Of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives, by Kenneth C. Davis.
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1750s Through the Civil War, by Melvin Patrick Ely.
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family, by Sannon Lanier and Jane Feldman.
Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America, by Catherine Kerrison.
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, by Henry Wiencek.
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave: Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, one of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves, by Isaac Jefferson.
More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew, by John Blake.
“Myne Owne Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676, by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes.
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy, by Gayle Jessup White.
Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf.
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American History, edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois Horton.
Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball.
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery, by Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier.
Standing in Their Own Light: African Americans in the American Revolution, by Judith Van Buskirk.
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia, by Patricia M. Samford.
The Art and Soul of African American Interpretation, by Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram.
The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter, by Andrew Levy.
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed.
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor.
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, by Ben Raines.
The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon, by Mary V. Thompson.
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family, by Bettye Kearse.
The Williamsburg Bray School: A History Through Records, Reflections, and Rediscovery, edited by Maureen Elgersman Lee and Nicole Brown.
The Women Jefferson Loved, by Virginia Scharff.
Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, by Annette Gordon-Reed.
“Those Who Labor for My Happiness”: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, by Lucia Stanton.
Tobacco & Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake 1680-1800, by Allan Kulikoff.
Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup.
Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865, by Melvin Patrick Ely, et al.
Virginia 1619: Slavery & Freedom in the Making of English America, edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn.
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing, by Gail Lukasik.
