Black History Month Part 1: We Were Never Less Footnotes

  1. Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Harvard University Press, 2007.
  2. Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. Viking, 2007.
  3. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. SlaveVoyages.org. Emory University. Accessed February 2026.
  4. Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Doubleday, 2006.
  5. Carney, Judith A. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Harvard University Press, 2001.
  6. Gomez, Michael A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  7. Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  8. Ehret, Christopher. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. University Press of Virginia, 2002.