Resources
- Judge Longstreet: A Life Sketch (Fitzgerald, 1891)Includes excerpts of Longstreet's writings
- To Keep the Way Open for Methodism: Georgia Wesleyan Neutrality Toward Slavery, 1844-1861 (Owen, 1998))in Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery, edited by John R. McKivigan and Mitchell Snay (1998)
- The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family (Auslander, 2011)The book examines the story of an enslaved woman named Catherine “Miss Kitty” Andrew Boyd, her enslaver Bishop James Osgood Andrew, and the schism of the Methodist Episcopal Church between North and South. Key players in this story are two of the people in question: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and George Foster Peirce.
- "‘The Delicacy of the Subject’: Creating a Proslavery Argument at Antebellum Emory," Emory Theses and Dissertations (Jamieson, 2011)Emory dissertation contains information on Longstreet and Haygood
Writings by Longstreet
- Letters on the Epistle Paul to Philemon, or the Connection of Apostolic Christianity with Slavery (1845)Promotes a pro-slavery Christian theology.
- A Voice from the South (Longstreet et. al., 1847)In support of slavery. Published by Longstreet and others while Longstreet at Emory.
- Georgia Scenes: Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic"Attributed to Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. A series of newspaper sketches of humble life in the South." Offers an idealized version of Southern life, including slavery.
