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19th Century Black Cincinnatians You Should Know
African American Experience in Southern Ohio
African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley
African American History Research Collection in the Genealogy and Local History Department at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
African Americans – Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
African Americans – Ohio History Central
African Americans in Southern Ohio
African Union Baptist Church (Cincinnati, OH)
African-American Genealogical Society of Cleveland, Ohio
African-American Settlements and Communities in Columbus, Ohio
African-Americans in Ohio
Anti-Slavery Sewing Society
Biography of Rev. David Smith of the AME Church - Including History of Wilberforce University (Wilberforce University)
Black Laws of 1807
Black Trailblazers, Leaders, Activists, and Intellectuals in Cleveland
Buried Truth: Soldiers in the 27th USCT
Carthagena, Ohio (Early African American settlement)
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers
Circle of Life: Ohio African American Genealogy
Civil War in Southern Ohio (African American soldier biographies)
Enrollment and Report of the Black Brigade of Cincinnati
First Baptist Church: Nickens Heritage Center (Chillicothe, OH)
Fugitives from Slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Underground Railroad)
In Strength & Struggle: Free Black Communities in the Old Northwest
John P. Parker House (Underground Railroad)
John Rankin House (Underground Railroad)
Kelton House (Underground Railroad)
Maple Heights African American Gazette
Notable Blacks of Cleveland (Photographs)
Ohio Education Association: Black History Month
Payne Cemetery (African American cemetery in Perry County)
Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities: A Documentary and Oral History
Records of Negroes in Ross County, Ohio Before 1818
Revolutionary War Soldiers (3 African American bios)
Rush R. Sloane House (Underground Railroad)
Settlements and Slave Ads
Slavery in Washington County
Southern Ohio Churches (African American)
Tracking Freedom: Tracing the Origins of Ohio's Free Blacks from 1803-1863
Traveling Through Time: Black History Index Page (Shelby County Historical Society, OH)
Traveling Through Time: Source Books Black History (Shelby County Historical Society, OH)
Underground Railroad (Ohio)
Underground Railroad in Ohio
Underground Railroad in Southern Ohio
Underground Railroad Museum
Underground Railroad Workers in Southeastern Ohio
Village of Mt. Pleasant (Underground Railroad)
Voice of Black Cincinnati: Cincinnati Black Historic Sites that Tell the Past, Present and Future
Wilberforce University (oldest black university)
Wilson Bruce Evans House (Underground Railroad)
With Diplomas of Patriotism: African American Civil War Veterans in Ohio
Zanesville, Ohio Colored Household Owners in 1851 City Directory

Bibliography

General:

African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley Newsletter. Yellow Springs, OH: African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley, 2001-. V. 1- /GC 977.1 Af83a/

African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley. 2001-2002 Members Surname Index Book. Yellow Springs, OH: African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley, 2001. 18p. /GC 977.1 Af83m/

African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Ohio churches and associations. /Microfilm Rolls 68-71/

Bain, Benjamin F. Multiracial Pioneers of the Ohio Valley: From the Beginning to 1900, Statistical Information. Marietta, OH: B. F. Bain, 1999. 4 volumes. /GC 977 OH32bn/

Bigglestone, William E. They Stopped in Ohio: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century. Oberlin, OH: W. E. Bigglestone, 1981. /GC 977.102 Ob2b/

Bigham, Darrel E. On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 428p. Appendix. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 B484o/

Black, Lowell Dwight. The Negro Volunteer Militia Units of the Ohio National Guard, 1870-1954: The Struggle for Military Recognition and Equality in the State of Ohio. Columbus, OH: L. D. Black, 1976. 412p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.1 B561ne/

Campbell, Karen S. Anti-Slavery & the Underground Railroad--Taking a Risk for Freedom. Waynesville, OH: The Mary L. Cook Public Library, 2007. Report of the Research Committee, The 3rd Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference, April 2007. 286p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.1 C15an/

Cox, Anna-Lisa. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers & The Struggle for Equality. New York: PublicAffairs, 2018. 280p. Index. Notes. /GC 973.068 C839bo/

Cox, Rachel. The African American Experience in Ohio, 1750 to the Present. Kettering, OH: Schuerholz Graphics, 2003. 220p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. /GC 977.1 C839af/

Friends of Freedom Society, Inc. and Ohio Underground Railroad Association. Freedom Seekers: Ohio and the Underground Railroad. Columbus, OH: Friends of Freedom Press, 2004. 201p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.1 F875fr/

Gerber, David A. Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860-1915. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1976. 500p. Index. Notes. /GC 977.1 G31b/

Gerber, David A. Ohio and the Color Line: Racial Discrimination and Negro Responses in a Northern State, 1860-1915. Princeton, NJ: D. A. Gerber, 1971. 618p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.1 G313oh/

Giffin, William W. African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2005. 312p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.1 G366af/

Griffler, Keith P. Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. 169p. Bibliography. Index Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 G875f/

Hagedorn, Ann. Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2002. 333p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.1 H128b/

Haller, Stephen E. and Robert H. Smith, Jr. Register of Blacks in the Miami Valley (OH); A Name Abstract (1804-1857). OH: Wright State University, 1977. 81p. /GC 977.1 H15r/

Howard, Marilyn K. Black Lynching in the Promised Land: Mob Violence in Ohio, 1876-1916. Columbus, OH: M. K. Howard, 1999. 247p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.1 H831bl/

Johnson, Eric Eugene. Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War: A List of 6,709 Soldiers Who Served in the United States Colored Troops and in the Ohio Volunteers. Bellville, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society, 2014. 457p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Oh3joh/

Kilbourn, John. Ohio Gazetteer, 1821. Columbus, OH: P. H. Olmstead, 1821. 204p. Census Reports. /GC 977.1 K55o/

Knepp, Gary L. Freedom's Struggle: A Response to Slavery from the Ohio Borderlands. Milford, OH: Little Miami Publishing Company, 2008. 260p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.101 C59kn/

LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistence. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 232p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 L328fr/

Lubet, Steven. The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 272p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 975.402 H23Lu/

May, Gregory. A Madman's Will: John Randolph, 400 Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2023. 382p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 M4514ma/.

McGee, Betty. Early Black Settlements in Ohio. Dayton, OH: MVCGH Conference, 1983. 45 minutes. /Cassette Tape/

McGee, Betty. Ohio Region Ethnic Groups: Little Publicized Facts on Early Blacks. Columbus, OH: NGS Conference, 1986. 60 minutes. /Cassette Tape/

Meyers, David and Elise Meyers Walker. Historic Black Settlements of Ohio. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 206p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.1 M576H/

Meyers, David and Elise Meyers Walker. The Reverse Underground Railroad in Ohio. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2022. 190p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.1 M576r/

Middleton, Stephen. The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. 363p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.1 M5844bl/

Minority Revolutionary War Service, Pennsylvania and the Ohio Frontier, 1775-1783. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2000. 30p. /GC 973.34 P38mi/

Moody, Minnie Hite. The Underground Railroad and Other Pieces. Granville, OH: Granville Historical Society, 1967. 41p. /GC 977.102 G76m/

Nitchman, Paul E. Blacks in Ohio, 1880. Decorah, IA: The Anundsen Publishing Company, 1985-87. Index. /GC 977.1 N63b V. 1-10/

The Ohio Black History Guide. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1975. 221p. /GC 016.9771 Oh35/

Ohio's African American Civil War Heritage: A Collection of Essays by the Research History Classes, 2000-2003, Washington High School, Washington Court House, Ohio. Washington Court House, OH: Washington High School, 2003. 83p. Appendices. Graphs. /GC 977.1 Oh3511/

Peskin, Allan, ed. North Into Freedom: The Autobiography of John Malvin, Free Negro, 1795-1880. Cleveland, OH: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1996. 93p. Index. Notes. /GC 977.1 M299no/

Rawick, George P. ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography - Indiana and Ohio Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1977. /GC 977.2 In2455 Sec. 2/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography - Ohio....Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. /GC 929.11 K136 Sec. 4/

Salafia, Matthew. Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 320p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 976.9 Sa31s/

Schulz, Kathy. The Underground Railroad in Ohio. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2023. 158p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.1 Sch83un/

Theiss, Nancy Stearns. A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 175p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977 T34t/

Trotter, Joe William, Jr. River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 200p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 977 T756r/

Turpin, Joan. Register of Black, Mulatto and Poor Persons in Four Ohio Counties, 1791-1861. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1985. 44p. Index. /GC 977.1 T86r/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition (Guide). Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. 146p. /GC 977.1 Oh3aw/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. /Microfilm Rolls 1-16/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Ohio's Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Rolls 8-12/

Yannessa, Mary Ann. Levi Coffin, Quaker: Breaking the Bonds of Slavery in Ohio and Indiana. Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 2001. 74p. Appendices. Bibliography. /GC 929.2 C65ya/

Young, Paul. The Underground Railroad's Busiest Escape Route. Georgetown, OH: Brown County Historical Society, 2004. 198p. /GC 977.1 Y86un/

Adams County:

Miller, Caroline R. Slavery in Newsprint: Central Ohio River Borderlands, Volume 1, 1797-1839. Augusta, KY: C. R. Miller, 2003. 282p. Index. Ohio Counties: Adams, Brown, Clermont. Kentucky Counties: Lewis, Mason, Bracken, Pendleton, Campbell. /GC 976.9 M612sl/

Slavery in Newsprint: Central Ohio River Borderlands, Volume 2, 1840-1859. Brooksville, KY: Bracken County Historical Society, 2003. Vol. 2, Illustrations. Index. /GC 976.9 M612sl/

Allen County:

Rowe-Adjibogoun, Jill. The Impact of Structural Constraints on the Quality of Life for African American Males in Lima, Ohio: A Community History. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 2004. 221p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.102 L62ra/

Belmont County:

Williams, Jacob C., Sr. Lillie: Black Life in Martins Ferry, Ohio during the 1920s and 1930s. S. l.: s. n., 1991. 516p. Photographs. /GC 977.101 B41wi/

Brown County:

Slavery in Newsprint: Central Ohio River Borderlands, Volume 2, 1840-1859. Brooksville, KY: Bracken County Historical Society, 2003. Vol. 2, Illustrations. Index. /GC 976.9 M612sl/

Young, Paul. The Gist Settlement Book. Georgetown, OH: Brown County Genealogical Society, 199-. 105p. Illustrations. Maps. /GC 977.101 B81yo/

Butler County:

Morrison, Debra Ann Young. African Americans Buried at Middletown Cemetery in Middletown, Butler County, Ohio. Middletown, OH: D. A. Y. Morrison, 19--. 21p.

White, Antonio J. "I am Miami:" Black Student Activism at Miami University, 1958-1978. Baltimore, MD: Morgan State University, 2010. 120p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.102 Ox2wh/

Clermont County:

Slavery in Newsprint: Central Ohio River Borderlands, Volume 2, 1840-1859. Brooksville, KY: Bracken County Historical Society, 2003. Vol. 2, Illustrations. Index. /GC 976.9 M612sl/

Clinton County:

Register of Blacks in Ohio Counties, 1804-1861. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1971. Ross, Clinton, Logan Cos. /Microfilm OH State Records Roll 2/

Coshocton County:

Donaldson, Cynthia Norfleet. Life in Black and White: A Family's Story of Navigating the Color Line. Columbus, OH: C.N. Donaldson, 2022. 287p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 929.2 C358dc/

Cuyahoga County:

Abdul-Alim, T. Khalilah. African-American Genealogical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, 2009 Members' Surname Index. Cleveland, OH: African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio, 2009. 31p. /GC 977.102/C59AFE, 2009/

African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, OH. Newsletter. Cleveland, OH: African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio, 1995- /GC 977.102 C59afd/

African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio. 2010 Members' Surname index. Cleveland, OH: African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, OH, 2010. 29p. /GC 977.102 C59afe 2010/

African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio. 1996 Membership List. Cleveland, OH, African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio, 1996. 5p. /GC 977.102 C59afa 1996/

African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio. 2007-08 Members' Surname Index. Cleveland, OH, African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio, 2007-8. 27p. & 27p. /GC 977.102 C59afe 2007-8/

African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio. Members' Surname Index. Cleveland, OH, African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio, 1995-. /GC 977.102 C59af 1995-1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006/

African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio. Proposed By-Laws. Cleveland, OH, African-American Genealogical Society Cleveland, Ohio, 1994. 7p. /GC 977.102 C59afb/

African-American Genealogical Society of Cleveland. African-American Genealogical Society, Cleveland: 25 Years, Celebrating Our Heritage. Cleveland, OH: African-American Genealogical Society, 2015. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C59aff/

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Cleveland Chapter Newsletter. Cleveland, OH: Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Cleveland Chapter, v.1-5, 1990-95. /GC 977.102 C59fac//

Burton, Frederick. Cleveland's Gospel Music. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. 128p. Bibliography. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.102 C59bur/

Davis, Russell H. Memorable Negroes in Cleveland's Past. Cleveland, OH: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1969. 58p. Illus. /GC 977.102 C59d/

Davis, Russell H. . Black Americans in Cleveland: From George Peake to Carl B. Stokes, 1796-1969. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1985. 525p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.102 C59dav/

House-Soremekun, Bessie. Confronting the Odds: African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2002. 202p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 977.102 C59hou/

Kusmer, Kenneth L. A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1976. 305p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. Blacks in the New World Series. /GC 977.102 C59ku/

Michney, Todd M. Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 334p. Illustration. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C59mi/

Who's Who Publishing Company. Who's Who in Black Cleveland, 2006. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing Company, 2006. 288p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C59wwb 2006/

Williams, Regennia N. Cleveland, Ohio. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.102 C59why/

Williams, Regennia Nanette. Equity and Efficiency: African American Leadership and Educational Reform in Cleveland, Ohio, 1915-1940. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University, 2001. 267p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.102 C59whz/

Erie County:

Steuk, William. The Underground Railroad in Sandusky, Ohio. S. l.: W. Steuk, 19--. 39p. Bibliography. /GC 977.102 Sa5st/

Franklin County:

Columbus Black History: Images from Our Past, Volumes 1 and 2. Columbus, OH: Yates Entertainment & Media, 2022-3. Two Volumes. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C72fu(a)/

Johnson, Eric Lamar. A History of Black Schooling in Franklin County, Ohio, 1870-1913. Columbus, OH: E. L. Johnson, 2002. 140p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.101 F85jo/

Mt. Vernon Avenue A.M.E. Church. The Mt. Vernon Ave. African Methodist Episcopal Church: 100 Years of Service to God and Mankind. Columbus, OH: Mt. Vernon Avenue A.M.E. Church, 1987. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C72mt/

Pritchard, Pamela. The Negro Experience at the Ohio State University in the First Sixty-Five Years, 1873-1938: With Special Emphasis on Negroes in the College of Education. Columbus, OH: P. Pritchard, 1982. 340p. Dissertation. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C72pr/

Greene County:

Greene County, Ohio, Clerk of Courts, Emancipation Record, 1805-1844. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1979. /Microfilm OH State Records Roll 4/

One Hundred Seventy-Sixth Anniversary, Middle Run Baptist Church, Xenia, OH: Middle Run Baptist Church, 1998. 10p. /GC 977.102 X24o/

Guernsey County:

Snider, Wayne L. Guernsey County's Black Pioneers, Patriots, and Persons. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1979. 136p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.101 G93sn/

Hamilton County:

Clark, Peter H. The Black Brigade of Cincinnati. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. 30p. Lists. /GC 973.74 Oh3cla/

Dabney, Wendell P. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens: Historical Sociological and Biographical. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970. 404p. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C49da/

Erkins, Esther Kay. A Case Study of Desegregation in Cincinnati Public Schools: 1974-1994. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati, 2002. 219p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.201 C49er/

Moore, Gina Ruffin. Cincinnati. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. 128p. Bibliography. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.102 C49mn/

Nitchman, Paul E. Blacks in Ohio, 1880: In The City of Cincinnati. Decorah, IA: The Anundsen Publishing Company, 1987. 196p. Index. /GC 977.102 C49ni/

Parrish, William H. An Underground Community: How Black Settled in the Historic Village of Glendale. S.l.: Xlibris, 2017. 117p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.102 G48pwm/

Taylor, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Race and the City: Work, Community and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 308p. Index. Notes. /GC 977.102 C49ra/

Taylor, Nikki M. Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tradegy on the Ohio. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. 163p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes.

Taylor, Nikki M. Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati's Black Community, 1802-1868. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. 315p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C495v/

Taylor, Nikki Marie. Frontiers of Freedom: The African American Experience in Cincinnati, 1802-1862. Durham, NC: Duke University, 2001. 329p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.102 C49sw/

Who's Who in Black Cincinnati: The 2003-2004 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2003. 204p. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C49who 2003-2004/

Who's Who in Black Cincinnati: The 2005 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2005. 260p. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C49who 2005/

Licking County:

Jackson, Rita Richardson. Underground Railroad Stations in Licking County, Ohio: A Photographic View Book. Newark, OH: ATIR Publishing, 2023. 123p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.101 L61jr/

Logan County:

Register of Blacks in Ohio Counties, 1804-1861. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1971. Ross, Clinton, Logan Cos. /Microfilm OH State Records Roll 2/

Lorain County:

Fletcher, Juanita D. Against the Consensus: Oberlin College and the Education of American Negroes, 1835-1865. Washington, DC: J. D. Fletcher, 1974. 314p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.102 Ob2fl/

Morris, J. Brent. Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 332p. Bibliography. Illustrataions. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.102 Ob2mo/

Waite, Cally L. Permission to Remain Among Us: Education for Blacks in Oberlin, Ohio, 1880-1914. Cambridge, MA: C. L. Waite, 1997. 167p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.102 Ob2wc/

Lucas County:

Gindy, Gaye E. The Underground Railroad and Sylvania's Historic Lathrop House: Including an Accounting of the Owners and Occupants of Sylvania's Historic Lathrop House Since 1835. . Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008. 244p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.102 Sy56gg/

Meigs County:

Parker, Margaret A. The Underground Railroad in Meigs County, Ohio. Pomeroy, OH: The Meigs County Historical Society, 2007. 97p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Pamphlet bound with publication. /GC 977.101 M47pm/

Miami County:

Miami County, Ohio, Clerk of Courts, Manumission Record, 1834-1847. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1979. /Microfilm OH State Records Roll 3/

Minnich, Rachel Ann and Vita Marie Saluke. Miami County of Ohio Underground Railroad. Dayton, OH: R. A. Minnich and V. M. Saluke, 2007. 151p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.101 M58mr/

Montgomery County:

Finney, Frederick M. Call to the Land of Promise. Dayton, OH: Challenge Press, 2015. 108p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.102 D33fin/

Thobaben, Janet Smith. A History of Blacks in Centerville and Washington Township. Centerville, OH: Centerville Historical Society, 1997. 17p. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.101 M76th/

Perry County:

Perry County, Ohio: Coal and Salt Lick Township Cemeteries. Junction City, OH: Perry County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, 1989. 192p. Index. Includes transcription of Payne Cemetery. /977.101 P42F, V3/

Pickaway County:

Buchanan, James. The Blacks of Pickaway County, Ohio in the Nineteenth Century. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2012. 142p. /GC 977.101 P58bj/

Portage County:

Watson, Robert Meredith, Jr. The Anatomy of a Crusade: A Western Reserve Township and the War Against the Slaveholders, 1831-1865. Memphis, TN: R. M. Watson, Jr., 1978. 721p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.1 W331an/

Ross County:

Mangin, Michael. Freemen in Theory: Race, Society, and Politics in Ross County, Ohio, 1796-1850. San Diego, CA: University of California, 2002. 467p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.101 B73ma/

Register of Blacks in Ohio Counties, 1804-1861. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1971. Ross, Clinton, Logan Cos. /Microfilm OH State Records Roll 2/

Stark County:

McIlwain, Nadine and Geraldine Radcliffe. African Americans of Canton, OH: Treasures of Black History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019. 224p. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.102 C16mi/

Summit County:

Bartley, Abel A. Akron. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.102 Ak7bar/

Jones, Tom. On a Burning Deck--The Road to Akron: An Oral History of the Great Migration, Vol. 1, 1900-1920. Columbia, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2024. 267p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.102 Ak73jt/

Warren County:

Palmer, Dana. Black & Mulatto Persons Residing in Warren County, Ohio From the Common Pleas Court Records, 1804-1851. Lebanon, OH: Warren County Genealogical Society, 2010. 98p. Illustrations. Index. /GC 977.101 W25pam/

Palmer, Dana. Warren County, Ohio: Black & Mulatto Persons Residing in Warren County, Ohio From the Common Pleas Court Records, 1804-1851. Lebanon, OH: Warren County Genealogical Society, 2007. 36p. Index. /GC 977.101 W25pal/

Polley, Eva Louise. African American Life in Franklin, Ohio. Franklin, OH: E. L. Polley, 2014. 160p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.102 P854po/

Thomas, Georgeanne. Black History in Warren County, Ohio. S. l.: G. Thomas, 1976. 63p. Bibliography. /GC 977.101 W25t/

Washington County:

Dennis, James L. Washington's Darker Brother: One Hundred Years of Black History in Washington County, Ohio, 1788-1888. Washington County, OH: J. L. Dennis, 1986. 77p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.101 W27de/

Williams County:

Patten, Heath Calvin. Following the Drinking Gourd: Williams County and the Underground Railroad. Montpelier, OH: Williams County Historical Society, 2010. 587p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.101 W67ph/

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