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Burke, Diane Mutti. On Slavery’s Border, Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, , 2010)
Green, Lorenzo J and Kremer, Gary R,and Holland, Antonio F. Missouri’s Black Heritage (Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1980)
Kennington, Kelly M. In the Shadow of Dred Scott, St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2017)
Sestric, Anthony J. 57 Years: A History of the Freedom Suits in the Missouri Courts. (St. Louis: Reedy Press, 2012)
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow, Mass incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. (New York: The New Press, 2010)
Twitty, Anne. Before Dred Scott, Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857. (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
VanderVelde, Lea. Redemption Songs; Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott. (Oxford University Press, 2014) Everett, Percival. James. (Doubleday, 2024)
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me. (Houghton Mifflin, 1961)
King, Martin Luther Jr. Strength to Love. (Harper & Row, 1963)
Larsen, Nella. Passing. (Oshun Publishing Company, 2013)
Muhammad, Kahlil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness. (First Harvard University Press, 2010)
Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed, A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
Wilkerson, Isabelle. The Warmth of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. (Random House, 2010)