1. George P. Rawick, The American Slave: A Composite.
2. Fisk University
Unwritten History of Slavery: Autobiographical Account of Negro Ex-Slaves
1945
Social Science Institue, Fisk University
Nashville
3. Ronnie W.Clayton
Mother Wit: The Ex-slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writer's Project
1990
Peter Lang
New York
4. John W.Blassingame
The Slave Community
1972
Oxford University Press
London
John W. Blassingame, Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews and Autobiographies. (1977) Lousiana State University Press. Baton Rouge.