NONFICTION

Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. NY: Ballantine Books, 1999.

Berry, Wendell. The Hidden Wound. NY: Northpoint/Farrar Strauss, 1989.

Branan, Karen. The Family Tree: A Kinship Lynching in Jim Crow Georgia. Forthcoming, Simon & Schuster.

DeWolf, Thomas Norman. Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.

DeWolf, Thomas Norman & Sharon Leslie Morgan. Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade. Boston: Beacon Press, 2013.

Douglas, Ellen. Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell. NY: Plume/Penguin, 1998.

Prince, Bryan. A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family’s Incredible Struggle for Freedom. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2009.

Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad. NY: Harper Perennial, 2007.

Wiencek, Henry. The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. NY: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999.

POETRY

Boisseau, Michelle. A Sunday in God-Years. University of Arkansas Press, 2009.

Collins, Martha. Blue Front. Graywolf, 2006.

Collins, Martha. White Papers. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Hopper, Ailish. The Dark Sky Society. New Issues, 2014.

Wright, C.D. One With Others. Copper Canyon, 2010.

York, Jake Adam. A Murmeration of Starlings. Crab Orchard, 2008.