Suggested Reading
Riders in the Storm
The service of African American soldiers during the Civil War is one of that conflicts most stirring aspects. From recruitment into combat and covering all the military, political and social aspects of this story John D. Warner recounts the history of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, the only black regiment raised in the North
North to Boston
Blake Gumprecht‘s fascinating writing exploring the little known biographies and oral histories of African Americans who took part in the Great Migration from the South and made their new home in Boston.
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities Ruth Holmes Whitehead‘s scholarly examination of the origins of the British offer of freedom to the thousands of the enslaved during War of Independence.
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan but every summer Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor,where a small community of African American professionals have built a wold of their own.
The Other Brahmins
Adelaide Cromwell’s pioneering work examines race and the social caste system in Boston over a period of two centuries and those black individuals who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the mid 1700’s to the middle of the twentieth century.
Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts 1742-1998 A fascinating, in depth examination by author, Franklin A. Dorman covering over 250 years of history of black families and individuals in the Massachusetts.
The Weeping Time.
Written by Anne C. Bailey, the story of the largest sale of human beings in American history. The author details a deep exploration how chattel slavery and the Civil War affected and many times destroyed both black and white families. A must read.
Something Worth Saving
Leland Owen Clarke’s Pictorial 19th & 20th century journey through Boston and the Forgotten People, Places and Events that Helped Shape America. Vol