Smith, E. D. (1988). Climbing Jacob's ladder: The rise of Black churches in Eastern American cities, 1740-1877. Washington: Published for the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press.

Smith, Edward D. Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities, 1740-1877. Washington: Published for the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.

Smith, Edward D. Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Rise of Black Churches in Eastern American Cities, 1740-1877. Washington: Published for the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.