Book List:

The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States - Ira Berlin - 2015

Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World - Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks - 2010

Israel on the Appomattox: a Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from
the 1790s through the Civil War - Melvin Patrick Ely - 2005

The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding
Father Who Freed His Slaves - Andrew Levy - 2005

The Problem of Slavery In Western Culture - David Brion Davis - 1969

Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell - 2005

Slave No More : Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas - Aline Helg - 2019

Free Blacks of Lynchburg Virginia 1805-1865 - Ted Delaney & Phillip Rhodes - 2001

Strangers in Their Midst: The Free Black Population of Amherst County, Virginia - Sherry McLeRoy & William McLeRoy - 1993

The Midas of Manumission: The Orphan Samuel Gist and his Virginian Slaves - Barb Drummond - 2018

Free Negroes in Halifax County, Virginia, 1767-1864 - Lander G. Anderson (2018)

Pittsylvania County, Virginia, register of free Negroes and related documentation - Alva H. Griffith (2001)