Virtual Walking Tour of Utica,
New York
Deirdre Sinnott has created a virtual walking tour of Utica that connects to the novel’s settings. To access this Google-based tour, click here.
Other Books on this subject:
NONFICTION
Come to Peterboro: Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Founding of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society, October 21-22, 1835, by Dr. Milton C. Sernett.
North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom, by Dr. Milton C. Sernett.
Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America, by Leonard L. Richards.
David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges.
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta Nehisi Coates.
To Set The Captives Free: Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen and the struggle for freedom in central New York 1835-1872, by Dr. Carol Hunter.
How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi.
Men we Reaped: A Memoir, Jesmyn Ward.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson.
13th, Documentary Film by Ava DuVernay.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander.
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, by Rebecca Hall.
On Juneteenth, by Annette Gordon-Reed.
FICTION
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, by Ernest J. Gaines (or the film with Cicely Tyson).
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones.
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead.
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi.
The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd.
The Rebel Wife, by Talyor M. Polites