Books:

First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama’s Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction (The University of Alabama Press, 1972, rev. ed. 2008)

A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (Louisiana State University Press, 2003)

American Slavery, 1619-1877 (Hill and Wang, 1993, rev. ed. 2003)

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987)

Articles and Book Chapters

“Comparative Perspectives on Emancipation in the U. S. South: Reconstruction, Radicalism, and Russia,” Journal of the Civil War Era (June, 2012)

“The South and the World,”Journal of Southern History(August, 2009)

“L’Approche comparée de l’étude de l’esclavage: Problèmes et perspectives,” in Myriam Cottias et al, eds., Esclavage et dépendances serviles: Histoire compare (2006)

“Eugene D. Genovese: Historian of Slavery,” Radical History Review (Winter, 2004)

“Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America,” Journal of American History (June, 2002)