Bibliography of Related Books
Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, by Elise Lemire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)To Set this World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Cornell University Press, 2006)
NPS Patriots of Color, ‘A Peculiar Beauty and Merit’: African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, by Revolutionary War consultant George Quintal, Jr., (National Park Service, 2002)
The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert Gross (Hill and Wang, 1976; 25th anniversary edition 2001)
Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860, by Joanne Pope Melish (Cornell
University Press, 2000)
Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged 6 Years and Eleven Months, By His Teacher, Miss Susan Paul, Lois Brown (ed.), (Harvard UP, 2000)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution, Lois Brown (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of the North, by C.S. Manegold (Princeton University Press, 2009)
Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African American Heritage, Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham (University Press of New England, 2004).
Maine’s Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People, by H. H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot (Tilbury House Publications, 2006).
Maria W. Stewart, America’s First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches, Marilyn Stewart (ed.), (Indiana UP, 1987)
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend, by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition 2009)
And for young readers and teachers
African American Heritage in Massachusetts: A Coloring Book, written and published by Rosalyn D. Elder, Artists for humanity
Beyond Freedom by Patricia Q. Wall (Fall Rose Books, 2010)
Child out of Place: A Story of New England by Patricia Q. Wall (Fall Rose Books, 2004) a historical novel set in Portsmouth, NH, and its sequel set in Boston, Mass.
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988)