Books
Browse our list:
- 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)
- 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)
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow, Mass incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. (New York: The New Press, 2010)
- 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)