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Abel, Annie Heloise. The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1915. This work was one of the first studies to treat the slaveholding tribes. It has recently been reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press.

Foster, Laurence. Negro-Indian Relations in the Southeast. New York: AMS Press, 1978. This is a reprint of an early Ph.D. dissertation and the pioneering regional study of those tribes that were later removed to Indian Territory.

Porter, Kenneth Wiggens. The Negro on the American Frontier. New York: Arno Press, 1971. Though this work puts much of its emphasis on the Seminoles, Porter deals with tribes indigenous to the Southeast and treats their history in the post-removal period.

Wright, J. Leitch, Jr. The Only Land They Knew. New York: The Free Press, 1981. This is a general study of slavery and explores the contact between Indians and blacks in the slavery system, demonstrating that the legalities of servitude often made little or no distinction between Indians and blacks.