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Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area
Seneca Village (Seneca Village was the 1st significant community of African American property owners in Manhattan.)
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Slavery in New York
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Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York
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Bibliography

General:

African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. New York churches and associations. /Microfilm Rolls 59/

Afro-Americans in New York Life and History. Buffalo, NY: Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, Inc., v.1-, 1977-. /Periodical/

Alvarez, Thomas. The Place Between: The New York Independent Colored Movement and the Democratic Party, 1883-1905. Ann Arbor, MI: T. Alvarez, 2007. 386p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.7 AL86pl/

Anti-Negro Riots in the North, 1863. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 48p. /GC 973.068 An87/

Armstead, Myra B. Young, ed. Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. 287p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 M588/

Bahn, Gilbert S. Slaves and Nonwhite Free Persons in the 1790 Federal Census of New York. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2000. 192p. /GC 974.7 B147sl/

Berlin, Ira and Leslie M. Harris, eds. Slavery in New York. New York: The New Press, 2005. 403p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 SL162/

Bond, Richard E. Ebb and Flow: Free Blacks and Urban Slavery in Eighteenth-Century New York. Baltimore, MD: R. E. Bond, 2004. 352p. Dissertation. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 N421bre/

Brown, Titus, Ph.D. Albany State University-A Centennial History: 1903-2003. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. 127p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 975.802 Al13br/

Calarco, Tom. The Search for The Underground Railroad in Upstate New York. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014. 139p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 C125s/

Calarco, Tom. The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004. 293p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.7 C125u/

Curran, John J. Peekskill's African American History: A Hudson Valley Community's Untold Story. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008. 155p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.702 P34cua/

Dewulf, Jeroen. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-owned Slaves. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 281p. Bibliograph. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 D519pi/

Dietrich, Erich E. Tuskegees of the North: African American Orphanages in New York, 1890-1940. New York: E. E. Dietrich, 2007. 265p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.7 D567tu/

Driscoll, James. The Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, New York and Beyond. Flushing, NY: Queens Historical Society, 2001. 99p. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 974.7 D833R/

Eichholz, Alice and James M. Rose. Free Black Heads of Households in the New York Federal Census, 1790-1830. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1981. 301p. /GC 974.7 Ei2f/

Eveleigh, Darcy et. al. Unseen: Unpublished Black History from "The New York Times" Photo Archives. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017. 308p. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Un74/

First Organization of Colored Troops in the State of New York to Aid in Suppressing the Slaveholders' Rebellion. New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1864. 24p. Notes. /GC 973.74 N42FIR/

Gellman, David N. Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 519p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 G283L/

Gellman, David N. and David Quigley. Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877. New York: New York University Press, 2003. 353p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N421ji/

Gellman, David. Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 297p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 G283e/

Gero, Anthony F. Black Soldiers of New York State: A Proud Legacy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009. 174p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 974.7 G319bl/

Gronningsater, Sarah L. H. The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,2024. 400p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Early American Studies Series. /GC 974.7 G89ri/

Groth, Michael E. . Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Albany, NY: Suny Press, 2017. 246p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Suny Series, An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley. /GC 974.7 G915sL/

Hemenway, Robin Lee Elizabeth. "The Efforts of Their True Friends": African Americans and Child Welfare in New York, 1836-1930. Minneapolis, MN: R. L. E. Hemenway, 2007. 214p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.702 N421hr/

Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery, Freedom & Culture Among Early American Workers. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 185p. Index. Notes. Appendix. Illustrations. /GC 974.702 N422 hod/

Hodges, Graham Russell & Alan Edward Brown. "Pretends to Be Free" Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 369p. Appendices. Bibliography. Glossary. Indices. /GC 974.7 H665p/

Hodges, Graham Russell Gao and Alan Edward Brown, eds. Pretends to Be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 369p. Illustrations. Indices. /GC 974.7 P92gg/

Imholt, Robert J. Beyond Slavery: The Transformation of Issues in the Politics of New York, 1857-1860. Lexington, KY: R. J. Imholt, 1974. 302p. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.7 Im3be/

Ingraham, Allen. St. Augustine's "Slave Galleries" Project, Summary of Research Findings. New York: The St. Augustine's Project, 200-. 9p. /GC 974.702 N422inh/

Katz, William Loren. Black Legacy: A History of New York's African Americans. New York: Atheneum Books of Young Readers, 1997. 250p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N421ka/

Kidder, William L. . The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis, 1754-1836. S.L.: W. L. Kidder, 2021. 378p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.3 K538r/

Klees, Emerson. Underground Railroad Tales, With Routes Through the Finger Lakes Region. Rochester, NY: Friends of the Finger Lakes Publishing, 1997. 176p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. /GC 974.7 K672un/

Kobrin, David. The Black Minority in Early New York. Albany, NY: New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1975. 45p. Bibliography. Illustrations. /GC 974.7 K799b/

Kruger, Vivienne L. Born to Run: The Slave Family in Early New York, 1626-1827. New York: V. L. Kruger, 1985. 1195p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.7 K939bo V. 1-2/

LaBruna, Salvatore. Runaway Slave Advertisements & Other Articles Related to the History of Slavery in the Hudson Valley, 1783-1827. Goshen, NY: Old Township Press, 2018. 247p. Bibliography. Indices. /GC 974.7 L11ru/

Leibman, Laura Arnold. Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 294p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 B7338L/

Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. African American Freedom Journey in New York and Related Sites, 1823-1870: Freedom Knows No Color. Cherry Hill, NJ: African Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2008. 407p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Appendices. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 M433af/

Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. Cato Freedom Project: Three African American Revolutionary War Patriots in Central New York. Oneonta, NY: United States Colored Troops Institute, Hartwick College, c2009. 10p. Photographs. Illustrations. Bibliography. /GC 973.068 M433C/

Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. Voices from the Front Line: New York's African American Statesmen of the Underground Railroad Freedom Trail and the United States Colored Troops Organized in the Empire State, 1863-1865. Oneonta, NY: Hartwick College, 2000. 193p. Index. /GC 974.7 M423hoa/

McManus, Edgar J. A History of Negro Slavery in New York. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1966. 219p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 974.7 M215h/

Mosterman, Andrea C. . Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 230p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 M85s/

Naylor, Natalie A. Exploring African-American History, Long Island and Beyond. Hempstead, NY: Long Island Studies Institute, Hofstra University, 1995. 66p. Bibliographies. Documents. /GC 973 N23e/

Negro Protest Pamphlets: A Compendium. New York: Arno Press, c1969. 6 pamphlets. /GC 973.068 N3127/

Negroes of New York. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1968. Five rolls of microfilm. From the Collections of the Schomburg Center, New York Public Library. A program of the Works Projects Administration in New York City. /Microfilm/

Nell, William C. Property Qualification or No Property Qualification: A Few Facts from the Record of Patriotic Services of the Colored Men of New York, During the Wars of 1776 and 1812, with a Compendium of Their Present Business, and Property Statistics. Ithaca, NNY: Cornell University Library, [2010]. 24p. Notes. /GC 974.7 P945ne/

Perez, Marjory Allen. Freedom: A Shared Sacrifice! New York's African American Civil War Soldiers. S.l.: Herons Bend Productions, 2018. 343p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 N42pz/

Piper, Emilie S. American of African Descent: An Annotated Bibliography of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and Some Connecticut & New York Historical References Through the Civil War Period. Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Athenaeum, Local History Department, 2005. 16p. /GC 973.068 P662am/

Price, Isabel Boiko. Black Response to Anti-Semitism: Negroes and Jews in New York, 1880 to World War II. Albuquerque, NM: I. B. Prices, 1973. 369p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422pi/

Questions and Answers on the African Burial Ground & Five Points Archaeological Projects. New York: Office of Public Education and Interpretation of the African Burial Ground, 1994. 14p. Bibliography. /GC 974.702 N422q/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography - New York...Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1979. /GC 929.11 Al113 Sec. 11/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Jackson, Riddle, and Company papers, 1835-1839. /Series J, Part 5, Roll 19/

Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1969. Microcopy M816. New York. /Microfilm Roll 1/

Rosenblatt, Albert M. The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Cass and the Fight for Freedom. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2023. 247p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 R723e/

Seraile, William. New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War. New York: W. Seraile, 1977. 273p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.74 Aa1se/

Shaffert, Charles F. The Editorial Attitudes of "The New York Daily Tribune" and "The New York Daily Times" Towards the Negro, 1850-1859. Lawrence, KS: C. F. Shaffert, 1969. 212p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 N421sh/

Singer, Alan J. New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008. 166p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 974.702 N422sing/

Singer, Alan J. New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2018. 199p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 Si641ne/

Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 199-. William B. Phillips papers, 1854-1861. /Series C, Part 1, Roll 5/

Slavery in the States: Selected Essays. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. Various Essays. /GC 973.068 N31s/

Smilios, Maria. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023. 428p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 Sm44bL/

Stessin-Cohn, Susan and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini. In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831. Catskill, NY: Black Dome Press, 2023. 472p. 2nd ed. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 St459id/

Stessin-Cohn, Susan and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini. In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831. Delmar, NY: Black Dome Press Corp., 2016. 346p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. /GC 974.7 St459in/

Steward, Austin. Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. 182p. Illustrations. /GC 974.7 St48tw/

Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in New Jersey and New York. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. 182p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sw67una/

Toney, Joyce Roberta. The Development of a Culture of Migration Among a Caribbean People: St. Vincent and New York, 1838-1979. New York: J. R. Toney, 1986. 221p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 N421to/

Update: African Burial Ground & Five Points Archaeological Project Newsletter. New York: Office of Public Education and Interpretation of the African Burial Ground, v.1-, 1993-. /GC 974.702 N422qaa/

Verga, Christopher. Civil Rights on Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2016. 127p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.701 N18ve/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Rolls 6-8/

Williams-Myers, A. J. Long Hammering: Essays on the Forging of an African American Presence in the Hudson River Valley to the Early Twentieth Century. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 1994. 186p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 W67aj/

Wilson, Sherrill D. African Burial Ground Project Classroom Study Guide & Glossary. New York: Office of Public Education & Interpretation of the African Burial Ground, 1998. 3rd ed. 46p. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N42qa/

Wilson, Sherrill D. and Emilyn L. Brown. African American History in Early New York: Bibliographic Resources. New York: Office of Public Education and Interpretation of the African Burial Ground, 1996. 24p. /GC 974.702 N422ws/

Bronx County:

Ultan, Lloyd. Blacks in the Colonial Bronx: A Documentary History. The Bronx, NY: The Bronx County Historical Society, 2012. 213p. Bibliography. Illustration. /GC 974.701 B78ulc/

Brooklyn County:

Kanakamedala, Prithi. Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough. New York: New York University Press, 2024. 271p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 B792kp/

Wilder, Craig Steven. A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 325p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. The Columbia History of Urban Life Series. /GC 974.702 N422wc/

Delaware County:

Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. The Freedom Journey and the Underground Railroad of the Upper Susquehanna River in Delaware and Otsego Counties, New York. Oneonta, NY : USCT Institute, 2011. 13p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.701 D37mh/

Dutchess County:

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. The Histories of Dutchess County's Predominately Black Churches: Their Histories as Told in Their Words. Wappingers Falls, New York: Bethel Missionary Church, 1998. 55p. /GC 974.701 D95hi/

Groth, Michael Edward. Forging Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley: The End of Slavery and the Formation of a Free African-American Community in Dutchess County, NY, 1770-1850. Binghamton, NY: M. E. Groth, 1994. 402p. Bibliography. /GC 974.701 D95gr/

Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project. Slavery, Antislavery, and the Underground Railroad: A Dutchess County Guide. Poughkeepsie, NY: Netpublications, Inc., 2010. 59p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.701 D95sl/

Dutchess County:

von Huene Greenburg, Dorothee. Flight to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in New York's Westchester and Dutchess Counties and Beyond. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2024. 119p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.701 W52gd/

Erie County:

Williams, Lillian Serece. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. 273p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. /GC 974.702 B86wi/

Fulton County:

Laird, Audrey and Audrey Bowman. Black Heritage in Fulton County. Gloversville, NY: City of Gloversville, NY Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution Committee, 1990. 26p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. /GC 974.701 F95bL/

Kings County:

Decker, Frank. Brooklyn's Plymouth Church in the Civil War Era: A Ministry of Freedom. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013. 157p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 B792de/

Driscoll, James. Friends of Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Queens and on Long Island. Flushing, NY: Queens Historical Society, 2006. 110p. Index. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.7 F915D/

Howell, Ron. Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 B792hr/

Taylor, Clarence. Black Churches of Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 297p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.702 B792ta/

Velsor, Kathleen G. The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends in Freedom. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013. 144p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 V54u/

Long Island County:

Griswold, Mac. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 461p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 Sh44gr/

Long Island County:

Kirkpatrick, Katherine and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller. The Art of William Sidney Mount, Long Island People of Color on Canvas. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2022. 192p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422kik/

Madison County:

Dann, Norman K. When We Get to Heaven: Runaway Slaves on the Road to Peterboro. Hamilton, NY: Log Cabin Books, 2008. 169p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.701 M26dnk/

Manhattan County:

Bracks, Lean'tin L. and Jessie Carney Smith, eds. Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era. Lanham,MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 304p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 973.068 B561br/

Corbould, Clare. Becoming African American: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 278p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N4224be/

Manhattan County:

Fearnley, Andrew W. and Daniel Matlin, eds. Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 300p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 N422harL/

Manhattan County:

Greater New York Federation of Churches. The Negro Churches in Manhattan ( New York City): A Study Made in 1930. New York: Greater New York Federation of Churches, 1930. 36p. /GC 974.702 N422hoba/

Haynes, Bruce D. and Syma Solovitch. Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 200p. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422hbd/

James, Davida Siwisa. Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton's Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024. 403p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422jd/

McNeil, Genna Rae et. al. Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York. . Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 2014. 708p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N421mcn/

Myers, Walter Dean and Bill Miles. The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage. New York: Harper, 2006. 152p. Bibliographs. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 940.410 N42my/

Watkins-Owens, Irma. Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. 238p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. Blacks in the Diaspora Series. /GC 974.702 N422woi/

West, Aberjhani and Sandar L. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Checkbmark Books, 2003. 424p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Ab37e/

Nassau County:

Day, Lynda R. Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1997. 160p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 D332mak/

Domatob, Jerry Komia, Ph.D. African Americans of Western Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 974.701 Su2doa/

Shodell, Elly. It Looks Like Yesterday to Me: Port Washington's Afro-American Heritage. Port Washington, NY: Port Washington Public Library, 1984. 38p. Photographs. /GC 974.702 P835i/

New York County:

Alexander, Leslie M. "Onward Forever:" Black Activism and Community Development in New York City, 1784-1860. Ithaca, NY: L. M. Alexander, 2001. 475p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422all.

Alexander, Leslie M. African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 258p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N421ale/

Anti-Negro Riots in the North, 1863. New York: Arno Press, 1969. 48p. /GC 973.068 An87/

Davis, Thomas J. A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985. 320p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422dav/

England, Sarah. Afro Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. 273p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.19 G18e/

Foote, Thelma Wills. Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2004. 334p. Index. Bibliography. Appendix. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422foo/

Foote, Thelma Wills. Black Life in Colonial Manhattan, 1664-1786. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1993. 510p. Harvard University Ph.D. Thesis, 1991. Bibliography. Notes. Tables. /GC 974.702 N421fo/

Forde, F. Donnie. Caribbean Americans in New York City, 1895-1975. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. 128p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 974.702 N421for/

Frohne, Andrea E. The African Burial Ground in New York City: Manifesting and Representing Spirituality of Space. Binghamton, NY: Binghamton University, 2002. 461p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422Froa/

Frohne, Andrea E. . The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 435p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photograph. /GC 974.702 N422fro/

Gill, Jonathan. Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America. New York: Grove Press, 2011. 520p. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422gill/

Harris, Bill. The Hellfighters of Harlem: African-American Soldiers Who Fought for the Right to Fight for Their Country. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002. 244p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 940.410 Aa1harri/

Harris, John. The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 300p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422haj/

Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 380p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422har/

Hondius, Dienke et. al. . Dutch New York Histories: Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage. Parallelweg, Germany: LM Publishers, 2017. 170p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422duu/

Ingraham, Allen. Black Participation in Five Early 19th Century Lower East Side Churches. New York: The St. Augustine's Project, 2001. 27p. /GC 974.702 N422ing/

Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 323p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422lef/

Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1985. 355p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Blacks in the New World Series. /GC

Papson, Don and Tom Calarco. Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the "Record of Fugitives.". Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015. 300p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422paps/

Peterson, Carla L. Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. 446p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 974.702 N422pet/

Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich. The Labor Movement and Black Economic Equality in New York City: District 65, 1934-1954. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 2002. 335p. Bibliography. Illustrations Notes. /GC 974.702 N422ph/

Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women Held in the City of New York, May 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, 1837. New York: William S. Dorr, 1837. 23p. Appendix. /GC 973.068 An87p/

Sacks, Marcy S. Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 231p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422scm/

Sacks, Marcy Sarah. "We Cry Among the Skyscrapers:" Black People in New York City, 1880-1915. Berkeley, CA: M. S. Sacks, 1999. 289p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422sac/

Scheiner, Seth M. Negro Mecca: A History of the Negro in New York City, 1865-1920. . New York: New York University, 1965. 246p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422sms/

Schoener, Allon. Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968. New York: The New Press, 2007. 258p. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422hle/

SenGupta, Gunja. From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 335p. Appendix. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 M422sg/

Seraile, William. Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 287p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422ser/

Sonders, Lucien. The Slave Gallery at St. Augustine's Church and the Architecture of Segregation. New York: The St. Augustine Project, 200-. 22p. Appendix. /GC 974.702 N422son/

Townsend, Craig D. Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 241p. Appendix. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422tow/

Walker, George E. The Afro-American in New York City, 1827-1860. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. 227p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422wg/

Wells, Jonathan Daniel. The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War. New York: Bold Type Books, 2020. 354p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422wj/

Welty, William M. Black Shepherds: A Study of the Leading Negro Clergymen in New York City, 1900-1940. New York: S. n., 1969. 368p. Bibliography. /GC 974.702 N422wel/

White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991. 278p. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. /GC 974.702 N421wh/

Who's Who in Black New York City. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing Company, 2009. 292p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422who 2009/

Wilder, Craig Steven. In the Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 332p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422wilc//

Wilson, Sherrill D. New York City's Slaveowners: A Social and Material Cultural History. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 117p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.702 N422wils/

Wilson, Sondra Kathryn. Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel. New York: Atria Books, 2004. 270p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422wil/

Zabin, Serena. Places of Exchange: New York City, 1700-1763. New Brunswick, NJ: S. Zabin, 2000. 264p. Dissertation. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 Z11pl/

Niagara County:

Hepburn, Sharon A. Roger, ed. Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2023. 149p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series. /GC 973.74 M58mjL/

Oneida County:

Sernett, Milton C. Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Movement. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986. 199p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 Se67mi/

Wisnoski, Donald M. The Opportunity Is At Hand: Oneida County, New York Colored Soldiers in the Civil War. Lynchburg, VA: Schroeder Publications, 2003. 132p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.701 On2wi/

Onondaga County:

Armstead, Myra B. Young. "Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August" African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 176p. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 974.502 N47ar/

Davis, Barbara Sheklin. Syracuse African Americans. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 974.702 Sy82db/

Murphy, Angela F. The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 195p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 Sy82mu

Price, Valencia Bouncer. An Historical Perspective of the American Missionary Association and Its Establishment of Lemoyne College, 1871-1940. Nashville, TN: Tennessee State University, 2001. 180p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 976.802 M52pr/

Stamps, S. David and Miriam Burney Stamps. Salt City and Its Black Community: A Sociological Study of Syracuse, New York. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 331p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs.

Orange County:

Brennan, Robert W. Genealogical History of Black Families of Orange County, New York. Goshen, NY: The Orange County Genealogical Society, 2001-06. Six volumes. /GC 974.701 Or12br/

Burrell, Kristopher. Bob Lewis' Encounter with the "Great Death;" Port Jervis' Entrance into the "United States of Lyncherdom.". New York: Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2002. 52p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.702 P832bk/

Durland, Donnalee. Combined Index to Volumes 1-6 of Robert Brennan's Genealogical History of Black Families of Orange County, NY. Goshen, NY: Orange County Genealogical Society, 2007. 195p.

King, Roger A. The Underground Railroad in Orange County, New York: The Silent Rebellion. Monroe, NY: Library Research Associates, 1999. 75p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. /GC 974.701 Or12k/

Lagoy, Donna and Laura Seldman. The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Town of Chester. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2016. 173p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 C426Ld/

Orange County:

McGovern, Rory and Ronald G. Machoian. Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2024. 228p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. The Black Soldier in War and Society Series. /GC 974.701 Or12rpr/

Otsego County:

Erickson, Janet Wentworth. Community Hero in Portraiture: American History, Harry Bradshaw Matthews. NY: s.n., 2017. 31p. Photographs. /GC 974.702 On22hb/

Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. Cato Freedom Conference and Think Tank : United States Colored Troops Institute, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, April 30-May 2, 2010. Oneonta, NY: Hartwick College, 2010. 27p. /GC 974,702 On22mh/

Queens County:

Bayside Historical Society. Bayside was a Wilderness Then . . . Voices from the Bayside's Black Community Revisted. Bayside, NY: The Bayside Historical Society, 2001-2. 36p. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N22bha/

Bayside Historical Society. Bayside was a Wilderness Then . . . Voices from the Bayside's Black Community. Bayside, NY: The Bayside Historical Society, 1988. 29p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N22bh/

Richmond County:

Dickenson, Richard B. Census Occupations of Afro-American Families on Staten Island, 1840-1875. Staten Island, NY: The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Science, St. George, 1981. 117p. Lists. Map. /GC 974.702 N422dic/

Ludwig, Bernadette. Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2026. 222p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.701 R41Lu/

Rockland County:

Nordstrom, Carl. Nyack in Black and White: Race Relations Over Three Centuries. Nyack, NY: The Historical Society of the Nyacks and the Nyack Public Library, 2005. 360p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 974,702 N98n/

Saratoga County:

Horne, Field. Saratoga's Black Heritage: A Guidebook. Ballston Spa, NY: Saratoga County History Center, 2025. 63p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.701 Sa75bh/

Schoharie County:

Daniels, Jack. Discovering the Forgotten History of African Americans in Schoharie County. Cobleskill, NY: Times-Journal Press, 1999. 88p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.701 Sch6cy/

Seneca County:

Grover, Kathryn. Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. 321p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 G26g/

St. Lawrence County:

Thompson, Bryan S. African Americans of St. Lawrence County, North Country Pioneers. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2023. 155p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /974.701 Sa2tb/

Suffolk County:

Day, Lynda R. Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1997. 160p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.7 D332mak/

Domatob, Jerry Komia, Ph.D. African Americans of Eastern Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 974.701 Su2do/

Hayes, Katherine Howlett. Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884. New York: New York University Press, 2013. 220p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.7 H32sl/

Higgins, James. Slavery in Rocky Point, New York. Rocky Point, NY: Rocky Point Historical Society, c2007. 51p. Appendices. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 974.701 Su2hj

Marcus, Grania Bolton. Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620-1860. Mattituck, NY: Amereon House, 1995. 218p. Bibliography. Illustrations. /GC 974.701 SU2mar/

Suffolk County Historical Society. Articles on The African American Experience in Suffolk County, New York. Riverhead, NY: The Suffolk County Historical Society, 2012. 14p. /GC 974.701 Su2ar/

Ulster County:

Mabee, Carleton. Promised Land: Father Divine's Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York. Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2008. 248p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.701 UL7mc/

White, Philip et. al. Bearing Witness: Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement n Ulster County, New York. Catskill, NY: Black Dome Press, 2024. 121p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.701 UL7wp/

Washington County:

Stewart, L. Lloyd. The Mysterious Black Migration, 1800-1820: The Van Vrankens and Other Families of African Descent in Washington County, New York. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corp., 2013. 322p. Appendix. Bibliography, Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 929.2 V3794sl/

Wayne County:

Perez, Marjory Allen. Final Stop, Freedom: The Underground Railroad Experience in Wayne County, New York. S.l.: Herons Bend Productions, 2017. 104p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.701 W36pa/

Westchester County:

Naison, Mark and Bob Gumbs. Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s. New York: Empire State Editions, 2016. 193p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.702 N422nam/

Quinn, Edythe Ann. Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and the Hills Community, Westchester County, New York. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. 221p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. /GC 973.74 N42qui/

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