Reading List

Bigelow, Ann Clymer. “Antebellum Ohio’s Black Barbers in the Political Vanguard.” Ohio Valley History 11, no. 2 (2011): 26-40.

Coggan, Blanche. “The Underground Railroad In Michigan.” Negro History Bulletin 27, no. 5 (1964): 122–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44174961.

Cox, Anna-Lisa. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality. Hachette UK, 2018.

Earle, Jonathan, and Diane Mutti Burke, eds. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. University Press of Kansas, 2013.

Foner, Eric. Gateway to freedom: The hidden history of the underground railroad. WW Norton & Company, 2015.

Green, William D.. Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Harbour, Jennifer R. Organizing freedom: Black emancipation activism in the Civil War Midwest. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020.

Jack, Bryan M.. The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008.

Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. “Rehearsal for War: Black Militias in the Atlantic World.” Slavery & Abolition 26, no. 1 (2005): 1-34.

Larkin, William Charles. “The Black preacher as educator from 1787 to 1909.” (1979).

LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013.

Lehman, Christopher P. Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: a History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. McFarland, 2014.

Lehman, Christopher P.. Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019.

Livingston, Samuel T. “Moses Dickson: Militant Abolitionist, 1824-1865” The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies 28 (No. 1), 11 – 22.

McClellan, Larry A. Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois. SIU Press, 2023.

Mc Watt, Arthur C. “Small But Cohesive: St. Paul’s Resourceful African American Community.” Ramsey County Historical Society Magazine, Spring 1991, p. 4.

Norton, Sydney J., ed. Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery. University of Missouri Press, 2023.

Pferdehirt, Julia. Freedom Train North: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2013.

Sayers, Daniel O. “The Underground Railroad Reconsidered.” Western Journal of Black Studies 28, no. 3 (2004).

Schwalm, Leslie Ann. Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. The underground railroad: An encyclopedia of people, places, and operations. Routledge, 2015.

Soike, Lowell J. Necessary Courage: Iowa’s Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery. University of Iowa Press, 2013.

Tesdahl, Eugene RH. “Lead, Slavery, and Black Personhood in Wisconsin.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 102, no. 4 (2019): 17-27.

Treat, John D. “Initiating Race: Fraternal Organizations, Racial Identity, and Public Discourse in American Culture, 1865-1917.” (2016).