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

Robert Louis Paquette and Louis A. Ferleger, eds., Slavery, Secession, and Southern History. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Mark M. Smith, Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.