Levine, Lawrence W. 1977. Black Culture and Black Consciousness. Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York and Oxford University Press.  
McDonald, R. 1993. The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves. Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press.  
Roughley, T. 1823. The Jamaica planter's guide, or, A system for planting and managing a sugar estate, or other plantations in that island and throughout the British West Indies. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.  
Smith Foster, F. 1994. Witnessing Slavery. The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press (1st edition 1979).  
White, H. 1978. The Fictions of Factual Representation. Tropics of Discourse. Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press (chapter 5).  
White, S. 1991. Somewhat More Independent. The End of Slavery in New York City, 17701810. Athens and London, University of Georgia Press.  
Zemon Davis, N. 1987. Fiction in the Archives. Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in SixteenthCentury France. Stanford, Stanford University Press.