West, E. (2013) Free People of Color: expulsion and enslavement in the Antebellum South. In: Link, W. A. , Brown, D., Ward, B. and Bone, M. (eds.) Creating citizenship in the nineteenth-century South. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, pp. 64-83. ISBN 9780813044132

West, E. (2012) Family or freedom: free people of color in the antebellum South. New Directions in Southern History. University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, pp256. ISBN 9780813136929

West, E. (2012) 'Between slavery and freedom': the expulsion and enslavement of free women of colour in the US South before the Civil War. Women's History Review. ISSN 1747-583X doi: 10.1080/09612025.2012.726126 (In Press)

West, E. R. (2010) "He come sometime widout de pass". Rethinking Cross-Plantation Marriages and Enslaved Families in Antebellum South Carolina. In: Thompson Friend, C. and Jabour, A. (eds.) Family Values in the Old South. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, pp42. ISBN 9780813034188

West, E. (2009) Dolly, Maria, Lavinia and Susan: enslaved women in Antebellum South Carolina. In: Spruill, M. , Johnson, J. and Littlefield, V. (eds.) South Carolina women: their life and times. University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, pp. 127-142. ISBN 9780820329352

West, E. (2009) Gender in eighteenth and nineteenth century America. The Historical Journal, 52 (1). pp. 253-264. ISSN 0018-246X doi: 10.1017/S0018246X08007395

West, E. R. (2007) 'She is dissatisfied with her present condition’: requests for voluntary enslavement in the antebellum American south. Slavery and Abolition, 28 (3). pp. 329-350. ISSN 1743-9523 doi: 10.1080/01440390701685530

West, E. (2004) Chains of love: slave couples in antebellum South Carolina. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, pp184. ISBN 9780252029035

West, E. (2004) Tensions, tempers, and temptations: marital discord among slaves in antebellum South Carolina. American Nineteenth Century History, 5 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1466-4658 doi: 10.1080/1466465042000257837

West, E. (2000) Masters and marriages, profits and paternalism: slave owners' perspectives on Cross-Plantation Unions in Antebellum South Carolina. Slavery and Abolition, 21 (1). pp. 56-72. ISSN 1743-9523

West, E. (1999) The Debate on the Strength of Slave Families: South Carolina and the Importance of Cross-Plantation Marriages. Journal of American Studies, 33 (2). pp. 221-241. ISSN 1469-5154

West, E. (1999) Surviving Separation: Cross-Plantation Marriages and the Slave Trade in Antebellum South Carolina. Journal of Family History, 24 (2). pp. 212-231.