Secondary Sources

Black History in Early New England

Selected Bibliography by Kabria Baumgartner

Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck, Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Richard Archer, Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Kabria Baumgartner, In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America (New York: New York University Press, 2019).

Edward L. Bell, Persistence of Memories of Slavery and Emancipation in Historical Andover (Boston: Shawsheen Press, 2021). https://books.google.com/books/about/Persistence_of_Memories_of_Slavery_and_E.html?id=VK-YzQEACAAJ

Edward L. Bell, "Obtaining Her Liberty: The 1771 Freedom Suit of Nancy Parker of Andover, Massachusetts (with Notes and Suggested Readings for Educators and Researchers on Massachusetts Slavery and Emancipation)," 2016. https://www.academia.edu/23912789/Obtaining_Her_Liberty_The_1771_Freedom_Suit_of_Nancy_Parker_of_Andover_Massachusetts_with_Notes_and_Suggested_Readings_for_Educators_and_Researchers_on_Massachusetts_Slavery_and_Emancipation_

Alexandra A. Chan, Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007).

Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005).

Lorenzo Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England: 1620-1776 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942).

Jared Ross Hardesty, Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston (New York: New York University Press, 2016).

Jared Ross Hardesty, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019).

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979).

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

William D. Piersen, Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in 18th Century New England (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988).

Leon Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790–1860 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961).

Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).

Additional Sources:

Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (Early American Places) – Christy Clark-Pujara

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America – Wendy Warren

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery – Margaret Ellen Newell

Slavery in Topsfield by Jeanne Pickering, Topsfield Historical Society.

Promises and Limitations of the New Republic: A Closer Look at African-Americans on Cape Ann, Cape Ann Museum

Enslavement and Segregation in the Andovers