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- THE COSTS OF THE CONFEDERACY, co-authored by professor, journalist and Contraband descendant Brian Palmer of Richmond, Virginia. Brian and his co-author Seth Freed Wessler won a Peabody award for this startling piece.
- CONTRABAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
- INTERACTIVE CONTRABAND CAMP MAP, A dissertation by Abigail Cooper, UPENN, 2014
- NEVER FORGET OUR PEOPLE WERE ALWAYS FREE, by Ben Jealous
- TROUBLED REFUGE: Struggling For Freedom In The Civil War, by Chandra Manning,
- EMBATTLED FREEDOM, by Amy Murell Taylor
- SEEKING FREEDOM: The Untold Story of Fort Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America, by Selene Castrovilla
- FIRST DAYS AMONGST THE CONTRABANDS, by Elizabeth Hyde Botume
- DIARY OF A CONTRABAND, by William B. Gould IV, Stanford University Press
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER: A Noisy, Fearless Life, by Elizabeth Leonard, UNC Press
- FREEDOM’S FIRST GENERATION: Black Hampton, Virginia 1861-1890, By Robert Engs
- ENFRANCHISEMENT AND CITIZENSHIP, by Edward Lillie Pierce, 1896
- DINNER AND A MOVEMENT, a film by Mike Mines, Official Trailer
- BEYOND THE MOAT – Podcast
- BEN BUTLER – A play by Richard Strand
- THE CONTRABANDS AT FORT MONROE, Atlantic Magazine, November 1861
- FORT MONROE VISITOR AND EDUCATION CENTER
- NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY PROJECT
- CONTRABAND AND FREEDMEN CEMETERY MEMORIAL
- LIVING CONTRABAND, National Park Service
- BORN IN SLAVERY: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938
- THE WPA AND THE SLAVE NARRATIVE COLLECTION
- HAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
- WASHINGTON D.C.’s “CONTRABAND CAMPS”, White House historical Association
- VIRGINIA: Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery and Memorial
- THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE & JUSTICE
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
- INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
- HISTORIC BLACK CHURCHES RISE FROM THE YORKTOWN CONTRABAND CAMPS
- SELTZER FILM AND VIDEO
- ILLUMINATING SHADOWS, Fort Monroe
