African American History in New England

Books

Curriculum Units

Children's Books

Films

Books

Adams, Virginia M., ed. On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.

Cottrol, Robert J., ed. From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

Cromwell, Adelaide M. The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750-1950. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.

Dorman, Franklin A. Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts, 1742-1998. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998.

Felton, Harold W. Mumbet: The Story of Elizabeth Freeman. New York: Dodd Mead, 1970.

Hall, Robert L., ed. Making a Living: The Work Experience of African-Americans in New England. Boston: New England Foundation for the Humanities, 1995.

Hayden Robert C. The African American Meeting House in Boston: A Celebration of History. Boston: Museum of Afro-American History, 1987.

Hayden, Robert C. African-Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years. Boston: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1991.

Hayden, Robert C. African-Americans on Martha's Vineyard: A History of People, Places and Events. Boston: Select Publications, 2005.

Horton, James Oliver. Black Bostonians. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979.

Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Kendrick, Stephen and Paul Kendrick. Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

Mabee, Carleton. Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1979.

McKissack, Patricia C. Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers. New York: Scholastic, 1999.

Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

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

Quintal, George. Patriots of Color: "A Peculiar Beauty and Merit": African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2002.

Schneider, Mark. Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.

We Fight for Freedom: Massachusetts, African Americans, and the Civil War. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1993.

Curriculum Units

Expectations: The Life of Phillis Wheatley. Carlisle, Mass.: Discovery Enterprises, 1996.

Kennedy, Sharon. Voices of West Medford: Oral Histories from the African-American Community. Medford: The Author, 1998.

Logan, Roberta. Long Road to Justice: The African American Experience in the Massachusetts Courts. Boston: Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society, 2000.

Lynn Historical Society. Abolition in Lynn. Lynn, Mass.: Lynn Historical Society, 1997.

Malloy, Mary. "From Boston Harbor We Set Sail!": A Curriculum Unit on African Mariners and Maritime Communities in Massachusetts, Grades 5 & 6. Sharon, Mass.: Boston African American National Historic Site, 1992.

Morlani, Joanne M. Cape Verdeans and Whaling: A Reading and Language Arts Curriculum for Grade 5. Watertown: Primary Source, 2000.

Murfitt, Chuck. African Americans in Boston's North End. Watertown: Primary Source, 2000.

Wadden, Alice C. 1721: Onesimus, an African Slave of Rev. Cotton Mather Gives Testimony. Watertown: Primary Source, 1997.

Weston-Dyer, Edwina. Crispus Attucks Remembered. Watertown: Primary Source, 1998.

Children's Books

Brennan, Linda Crotta. The Black Regiment of the American Revolution. North Kingstown, RI: Moon Mountain Pub., 2004.

Bolden, Tonya. Maritcha: A Remarkable Nineteenth-Century Girl. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

DeAngelis, Gina. The Massachusetts 54th: African American Soldiers of the Union. Mankaot, Minn.: Bridgestone Books, 2003.

Lasky, Kathryn. A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet. Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2003.

Richmond, Merle. Phillis Wheatley. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.

Anchor of the Soul. 1994.

Making a Living. 1995.

On My Own: The Traditions of Daisy Turner. 1987.

Slavery and the Making of America. 2004.