Johnson W. Inconsistency, Contradiction, and Complete Confusion: The Everyday Life of the Law of Slavery. Law and Social Inquiry. 1997;22(2):405-33.

Johnson W. The White Slave, the Slave Trader, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s South. Journal of American History. 2000;87(1):13-38.

Johnson W. Possible Pasts: Some Speculations on Time, Temporality, and the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Amerikastudien/American Studies. 2000;45(4).

Johnson W. Asking Questions, Reading Bodies. In: Smith MM The Old South . Oxford: Basil Blackwell; 2000.

Johnson W. A Nettlesome Classic Turns Twenty-Five: Re-Reading Eugene D. Genovese’s Roll, Jordan, Roll. Common-Place [Internet]. 2001. Website

Johnson W. Time and Revolution in African America. Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire. 2001;3(3):83-101.

Johnson W. James Oakes and the Bourgeois Critique of Slavery. In: Jordan W New Perspectives on American Slavery. Oxford, MS: The University of Mississippi Press; 2003.

Johnson W. On Agency. Journal of Social History. 2003;Fall:113-124.

Johnson W. The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question. Journal of the Early Republic. 2004;Summer:299-308.

Johnson W. The Future Store. In: Johnson W The Chattel Principle. ; 2004. p. 1-34.

Johnson W. State of the Field: Slavery. 2004.

Johnson W. Whispers and Shadows: the Broken Narrative of Stolen Lives. Lincoln Center Theater Review. 2005;40(Winter/Spring):14-16.

Johnson W. Slavery. In: Burdett B Keywords in American Cultural Studies. New York University Press; Submitted.

Johnson W. Clerks All! Or, Slaves Without Masters. Journal of the Early Republic. Submitted.

Johnson W. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Boston: Harvard University Press; 1999. Website