The following books touch on various topics within the system of slavery, freedom, and liberty in New Orleans and the world. 

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism  / Edward Baptist

The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World / Dr. Emily Clark 

Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas / David B. Glasper and Darlene Clark Hine

Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 / Kimberly S. Hanger

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century / Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Negro Soldiers; Free Men of Color in the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812) / Rosemarie Fay Loomis

The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square  / Ned Sublette

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry / Ned & Constance Sublette

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1856 -1862 / Judith K. Schaefer

Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana / Judith Schafer

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South / Marie J. Schwartz