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  • Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN   978-1108493031
  • Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2015. ISBN   978-0807174319
  • New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2015, co-edited with Christine Sears. ISBN   978-0807161159
  • Slavery in the United States. New York: Facts on File, 2012. ISBN   978-0816081158
  • Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2006. ISBN   978-0807137123

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    2. ↑ Merritt, Keri Leigh (October 6, 2016). "Slavery and Violence in the Old South: An Interview with Jeff Forret". aaihs.org. African American Intellectual History Society. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
    3. ↑ "Velma (Mrs. Jim) Forret". legacy.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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    5. ↑ "Forret Award". sau.edu. December 5, 2016. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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    7. ↑ "Jeff Forret – Interview with a Washington DC History Author – "Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts"". networks.h-net.org. January 16, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
    8. ↑ Wetherington, Mark V. (June 2007). "Review of Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside". Journal of American History . 94 (1): 276–277. doi:10.2307/25094846. JSTOR   25094846 . Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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    10. ↑ Sattler, Brian (October 21, 2015). "Forthcoming books by Forret expand slavery dialogue". lamar.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
    11. ↑ "Historian, author Forret wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize" (PDF). lamar.edu. Winter 2017. p. 8. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
    12. ↑ "2016 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists". lapiduscenter.org. October 3, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
    13. ↑ "2016 PROSE Awards". proseawards.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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    15. ↑ Sattler, Brian (March 28, 2016). "Forret awarded National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 Summer Stipend". lamar.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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    17. ↑ Shelly Vitanza (June 17, 2019). "Forret named Distinguished Faculty Fellow". lamar.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
    18. ↑ Vitanza, Shelly (January 29, 2020). "Forret links slavery to modern-day incarceration in new history book". lamar.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
    19. ↑ "2021 Publication Award Winners". aaslh.org. July 27, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
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    Jeff Forret
    Born1972 (age 48–49)
    Calamus, Iowa, USA
    Spouse(s)Sharon Hord Forret
    Relatives Monica Forret (sister)
    Awards Frederick Douglass Prize
    Leadership in History Award
    Academic background
    EducationB.A., 1995, St. Ambrose University
    M.A., 1998, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    PhD, 2003, University of Delaware
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