Books
Phillip D. Dillard, Jefferson Davis's Final Campaign: Confederate Nationalism and the Fight to Arm Slaves (Mercer University Press, 2017).
Robert F. Durden, The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation (Louisiana State University Press, 1972).
Bruce Levine, Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2006.