- Ladies, Women, and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston (Gender and American Culture)
- James Louis Petigru: Southern Conservative, Southern Dissenter
- Bound with Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement (Contributions in American History)
- The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843
- They Who Would Be Free: Blacks Search for Freedom, 1830-1861