Further Reading

Websites

The Abolition of the Slave Trade

Black New Yorkers

Mapping African American Past (MAPP, 2008)

New York Divided – Slavery and the Civil War

Slavery in New York

Lemon Case

another on the Lemon Case

Pierre Toussaint - Maroonage

Podcasts

There are excellent episodes focused on many of the sites featured on the tour from the Bowery Boys podcast

The Gotham Center for New York City History

Pleasure Gardening with Tourmaline Walking Tour

Books

African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 by Leslie M. Alexander (2008)

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson (2011)

David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City by Graham Russell Gao Hodges (2010)

Dutch New York Histories: Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage by Hondius, Jouwe, Stam and Tosch (2017)

Educated for Freedom: the Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation by Anna Mae Duane (2020)

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson (2019)

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner (2015)

In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 by Leslie M. Harris (2003)

Slavery in New York edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris (2005)

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells (2020)

When I Die, I Shall Return to My Own Land: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 (2021)