I consulted a great many books and papers in the course of researching The Strangers’ Tomb. The following are among the most important.
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Bower, Anne, ed. African American Foodways (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore. Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views of Human Evolution (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009).
Dupree, A. Hunter. Asa Gray (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959).
Finley, M. L., ed. Slavery in Classical Antiquity: Views and Controversies (New York: Barnes & Noble, [1960] 1968).
Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Garlan, Yvon. Slavery in Ancient Greece, rev. and enl. ed., trans. Janet Lloyd (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982).
Gisborne, Thomas. Walks in a Forest, or, Poems Descriptive of Scenery and Incidents Characteristic of A Forest, at Different Seasons of the Year. 4th ed. (London: Cadell & Davies, 1799).
Grimé, William, ed. Ethno-Botany of the Black Americans (Algonac, MI: Reference Publications, 1979).
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Patterson, Orlando. Freedom: vol. 1. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (New York: Basic Books, 1991).
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Rogers, Molly. Delia’s Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (New Haven: Yale, 2010).
Sinclair, Jill. Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009).
Sollors, Werner, ed. Interracialism: Black/White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (New York: Basic Books, 2004).