These books help provide context for the records I find and to help paint a picture of the larger historical context:
Berry Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh : The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation. Beacon Press 2017.
Fields Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground : Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press 1985.
Kulikoff Allan. Tobacco and Slaves : The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake 1680-1800. [Nachdr.] ed. Univ. of North Carolina Pr 2002.
Thomas William G. A Question of Freedom : The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. Yale University Press 2020.
stories of Then 