Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South . New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

 

Camp, Stephanie M. H., Closer to Freedom : Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,  2004.

 

Costa, Tom, and Brooke Doyle. "Runaway Slave Advertisements: Teaching from Primary Documents." Social Education 68, no. 4 (May 1, 2004): SS4.

 

Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. Runaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantation. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

Hyland, Lawrence N. The Development of the Runaway Slave Management System in the Deep South: 1820-1865.:University of South Alabama,1996

 

Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market . n.p.: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

 

Additional Resources:

University of Southern Mississippi Runaway Slave Advertisement Database: http://aquila.usm.edu/drs/

 

Columbus Lowndes Public Library, Local History Room

 

Website: http://www.lowndeslibrary.org/client/clpl

 

MUW, History, Political Science and Geography

Website: http://web3.muw.edu/as/hpg