Jerome Anthony McDuffie (1979). Politics in Wilmington and New Hanover County, North Carolina, 1865–1900: The Genesis of a Race Riot. Ph.D. thesis, Kent State University. According to McDuffie, the speech was delivered in Georgia on August 11, 1897. See https://www.1898wilmington.org/AlexanderManlyRebeccaFelton.shtml
Feimster, Crystal Nicole (2009). Southern horrors: women and the politics of rape and lynching. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-06185-9. OCLC318876104.