Introduction The Slave Trade The Domestic Sale of Slaves The Lives of Individual African Americans before 1783 Phillis Wheatley Revolutionary Participation The Struggle for Freedom The Legal End of Slavery in Massachusetts The Lives of African Americans in Massachusetts after the End of Slavery St. George Tucker's Queries on Slavery in Massachusetts Bibliography List of All Featured Documents and Objects Search Tool

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Allyn, Charles. The Battle of Groton Heights. New London: Charles Allyn, 1882.

Boatner, Mark Mayo. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1966.

Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. [CD-Rom]. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society and Massachusetts Historical Society, 2005.

Desrochers, Robert E. Jr. "Slave-For-Sale Advertisements and Slavery in Massachusetts, 1704-1781." In The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. LIX, number 3, July 2002.

Dunn, Richard S., James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle, editors. The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003.

Greene, Lorenzo Johnston. The Negro in Colonial New England. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. Black Bostonians. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1979.

Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. In Hope of Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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

Logan, Rayford W. and Michael R. Winston, editors. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1982.

Mason, Julian D., Jr., Ed.. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Massachusetts Historical Review, Volume 4, 2002. Special issue: "Race & Slavery."

Nash, Gary. The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Nell, William Cooper. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1855.

Nell, William Cooper. Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812. Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1852.

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va, by University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Robinson, William H. Phillis Wheatley in the Black American Beginnings, Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975.

Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. New York: Ecco, 2006.

Thwing, Annie Haven. Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630-1822. [CD-Rom]. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society and Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001.

Wheatley, Phillis. Complete Writings. Edited by Vincent Carretta. New York: Penguin, 2001.

"Africans in America: Part 2, Revolution: 1750-1805/ Narrative" [Website]. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p39.html

"Africans in America, Part 2, Revolution: 1750-1805/ Resource Bank" [Website]. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h38.html

"Collections Relevant to African American History at the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Overview." By Beth A. Bower, independent researcher [Website]. http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0265

"The Massachusetts Court System: The Massachusetts Constitution, Judicial Review, and Slavery" [Website]. http://www.mass.gov/courts/jaceducation/constjuslavery.html

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