Reference Books/Videos

  1. Wilkinson County, Mississippi, School Census by Serena Abbess Haymon | F & M Enterprises, Pride, LA., 1994-  
  1. Interview with Samuel Booker Minor (Dec 26,1998) by Alvin Blakes | ©almostdisappeared.com 
  1. Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall | LSU Press, Jul 1, 1995 
  1. Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall | Dec 24, 1999 CD-ROM 
  1. The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family by Bertram Wyatt-Brown | Oxford University Press, Nov 21, 1996 
  1. Notes on political economy (Vol-1): as applicable to the United States [1844] by Nathaniel A. Ware | Augustus M. Kelly Publishers, New York, 1967 
  1. Prince among Slaves: The True Story of An African Prince Sold Into Slavery in The American South by Terry Alford by Terry Alford | Oxford University Press, 1977 
  1. The Black Families of Edgefield Plantation Woodville, Mississippi 1776-1876 by Alvin Blakes | African American Genealogy Interest Group (AAGIG) of Dallas, Texas, Nov. 20, 2021 
  1. Black Homesteaders of the South by Bernice Alexander Bennett | The History Press, Oct 24, 2022 
  1. The Life of Corporal Philip McWhorter:81st Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry by Alvin Blakes | African American Civil War Museum and Monument, Feb 23, 2022 
  1. Black Families of Edgefield Plantation: The Growth of Human Capital, Labor & Wealth In Woodville, Mississippi 1776-1865 by Alvin Blakes | Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage 5th Annual Conference held on June 10-11, 2021, at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, June 11, 2022 
  1. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael A. Gomez | The University of North Carolina Press, Mar 30, 1998 
  1. Interview with Celeste Blakes Stirgus by Alvin Blakes | ©almostdisappeared.com, Jan. 15, 2023 
  1. Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic by Wendy Wilson-Fall | Ohio University Press, Oct 21, 2015 
  2. Rothman, Joshua D.. The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. First edition. New York, NY, Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2021.
  3. Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Isaac Franklin, Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South: With Plantation Records. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 19681938.