Suggested Reading
Blake Gumprecht‘s fascinating writing exploring the little known histories of the Great Black Migration to Boston and New England
This carefully researched history details the military, political, economic, and cultural experience of black people during the era of the American Revolution. Beginning with Crispus Attucks, the first man killed in the Revolutionary action, the authors recount a series of fascinating personal histories. The text is highlighted by excerpts form letters, journals, newspaper articles, and other documents, as well as by poems, broadsides, and passages from magazines of the day. Authors: Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan
The book is a revised and expanded edition of the authors’ classic catalog that accompanied a pioneering exhibition mounted in 1973 by the National Portrait Gallery.
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 read by author, Franklin A. Dorman covering over 250 years of history of black families and individuals in the Bay State.
The Weeping Time
Written by Anne C. Bailey, the story of the largest sale of human beings in American history.
Almost Home by Ruma Chopra.
The fascinating saga of the Jamaican Maroons that chronicles their epic journey from the mountains of Jamaica to the harshness of Nova Scotia to the deceptive promise of Africa. Well told captivating story of a people both respected and feared and their ultimate desire to return to their homeland.
The Negro in Colonial New England 1620-1776 by author Lorenzo J. Greene Ph.D
Written in 1942 is remarkable in its twelve chapter scholarly detail replete with statistics on a little studied subject of the enslaved in the north and the lives of African Americans in colonial America.