West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (2021) ‘We chilluns, long wid her, wuz lak de udder slaves’: free black families and quasi-slavery in the pre-Civil War US South. Journal of American Studies. ISSN 1469-5154 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875820001735

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 and David, S., (2021) Hidden voices: the lives of enslaved women in the Lowcountry and the South. United Kingdom. Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, Charleston, South Carolina.

Clinton, C. and West, E. (2020) Gender and sexuality in the Old South. In: Thompson Friend, C. and Glover, L. (eds.) Reinterpreting Southern Histories: Essays in Historiography. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. ISBN 9780807172568

West, E. (2020) Nominal slavery, free people of colour, and enslavement requests: slavery and freedom at the ‘edges’ of the regime in the antebellum South. In: Aje, L. and Armstrong, C. (eds.) The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 199-210. ISBN 9781350071421 doi: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350071452.ch-013

West, E. (2019) The union of enslaved couples during the disunion of the nation: love, discord and separations in US slavery and thereafter. In: Grey, D. and Gregory, J. (eds.) Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138354302

Cowling, C., Machado, M. H. P. T., Paton, D. and West, E., eds. (2019) ‪Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies. Routledge, pp376. ISBN 9780367202026

West, E. (2018) Reflections on the 'History and Historians' of the black woman's role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence. American Nineteenth Century History, 19 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 1466-4658 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2018.1429333

West, E. and Shearer, E. (2018) Fertility control, shared nurturing, and dual exploitation: the lives of enslaved mothers in the antebellum United States. Women's History Review, 27 (6). pp. 1006-1020. ISSN 1747-583X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1336849

Cowling, C., Machado, M. H. P. T., Paton, D. and West, E., eds. (2018) Mothering slaves: motherhood, childlessness and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies. Women's History Review (special issue), 27 (6). Taylor and Francis. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1336832

Cowling, C., Machado, M. H. P. T., Paton, D. and West, E., eds. (2017) Mothering slaves: comparative perspectives on motherhood, childlessness, and the care of children in Atlantic slave societies. Slavery & Abolition (special issue), 38 (2). Routledge, pp. 223-231. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2017.1316959

West, E. and Knight, R. J. (2017) Mothers’ milk: slavery, wet-nursing, and black and white women in the Antebellum South. Journal of Southern History, 83 (1). pp. 37-68. ISSN 0022-4642 doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2017.0001

West, E. (2017) African Americans; Chinese Exclusion Acts; Frederick Douglass; Emancipation Proclamation; Freedmen's Bureau; fugitive slave laws; slave revolts; Nat Turner; Underground Railroad. In: Stevenson, J. and Cook, C. (eds.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521847711 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511842740

West, E. (2014) Enslaved women in America: from colonial times to emancipation. African American History Series. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, USA, pp160. ISBN 9781442208711

West, E. (2013) '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, 22 (3). pp. 460-477. ISSN 1747-583X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.726126

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. 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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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.