Please see below for a list of other projects and research sources
The digital Bristol Timeline of Enslavement, hosted by the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society
Eleanor C. Dobson's Mapping the Timeline of Enslavement
The Little Compton Historic People of Color Database (XLS), which compiles references to those enslaved in Little Compton, RI during the 17th-19th centuries.
The North East Slavery Records Index (NESRI), a searchable database of records from New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
The SlaveVoyages database, which includes data on the Transatlantic and inter-American slave trade, which transported more than 12 million enslaved Africans
The Stolen Relations collaborative database on Indigenous enslavement between 1492 and the 1900s.
Suggested Reading Materials
This is only a brief survey of materials published on the subject of enslavement, emancipation, and race, and I endeavour to add to it as I continue my studies.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousand Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)
Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017)
Blanck, Emily. “Seventeen Eighty-Three: The Turning Point in the Law of Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts.” The New England Quarterly 75, no. 1 (2002): 24–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/1559880.
Clark-Pujara, Christy. Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. (New York: New York University Press, 2016)
Farrow, Anne, John Lang, and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted and Profited from Slavery. (New York: Ballantine Books, 2006)
Finkenbine, Roy E. “Belinda’s Petition: Reparations for Slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts.” The William and Mary Quarterly 64, no. 1 (2007): 95–104. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4491599.
Hardesty, Jared Ross. “‘The Negro at the Gate’: Enslaved Labor in Eighteenth-Century Boston.” The New England Quarterly 87, no. 1 (2014): 72–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43285054.
Herndon, Ruth Wallis. Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margins of Early New England (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
Johnson, Cynthia Mestad. James DeWolf and the Rhode Island Slave Trade. (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014)
Lawson, Melinda. “Imagining Slavery: Representations of the Peculiar Institution on the Northern Stage, 1776–1860.” Journal of the Civil War Era 1, no. 1 (2011): 25–55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26070088.
Lewis, Earl. “To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping Diasporas.” The American Historical Review 100, no. 3 (1995): 765–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/2168604.
Manegold, C.S. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
Martin, CJ. The Precious Birthright: The Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Maskiell, Nicole Saffold. Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)
Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)
Montalvo, Maria R. Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)
Morgan, Edmund S. “Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox.” The Journal of American History 59, no. 1 (1972): 5–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/1888384.
Nagl, Dominik. “The Governmentality of Slavery in Colonial Boston, 1690-1760.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 58, no. 1 (2013): 5–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43485857.
Patterson, Orlando. “The Unholy Trinity: Freedom, Slavery, and the American Constitution.” Social Research 54, no. 3 (1987): 543–77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40970472.
Piersen, William D. Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988)
O’Toole, Marjorie Gomez. If Jane Should Want to be Sold: Stories of Enslavement, Indenture, and Freedom in Little Compton, Rhode Island. (Little Compton, RI: Little Compton Historical Society, 2016)
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Penguin Books, 2007)
Sweet, John Wood. Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
Warren, Wendy A. “‘The Cause of Her Grief’: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England.” The Journal of American History 93, no. 4 (2007): 1031–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/25094595.
Warren, Wendy A. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America (New York: Liveright Publishing Co., 2016)
White, Shane. “‘It Was a Proud Day’: African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North, 1741-1834.” The Journal of American History 81, no. 1 (1994): 13–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2080992.
Whiting, Gloria McCahon. Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in New England. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Whiting, Gloria McCahon. “Power, Patriarchy, and Provision: African Families Negotiate Gender and Slavery in New England.” The Journal of American History 103, no. 3 (2016): 583–605. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48560224.
Whiting, Gloria McCahon. “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court.” The William and Mary Quarterly 77, no. 3 (2020): 405–40. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.77.3.0405.