2023

Wilson, B. and West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814, eds. (2023) Slavery and emotions in the Atlantic World. Slavery & Abolition. Routledge. (In Press)

2021

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, 55 (5). pp. 991-1018. 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.

2020

Clinton, C. and West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2019

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814, eds. (2019) ‪Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies. Routledge, pp376. ISBN 9780367202026

2018

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814, 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

2017

Cowling, C., Machado, M. H. P. T., Paton, D. and West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814, 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2014

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (2014) Enslaved women in America: from colonial times to emancipation. African American History Series. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, USA, pp160. ISBN 9781442208711

2013

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2012

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2010

West, E. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2009

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2007

West, E. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2004

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (2004) Chains of love: slave couples in antebellum South Carolina. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, pp184. ISBN 9780252029035

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

2000

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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

1999

West, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-3814 (1999) Surviving Separation: Cross-Plantation Marriages and the Slave Trade in Antebellum South Carolina. Journal of Family History, 24 (2). pp. 212-231.