Warren Middle Passage Project Resource List
Books
Arnold, James N., Vital Record of RI, Volume 6, Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891-1912
Baker, Virginia, History of Warren in the War of the Revolution, Virginia Baker, 1901
Baptist, Edward E., The Half has never been told: Slavery and the making of American capitalism, Basic Books, 2014
Bartlett, I. H., From slave to citizen: The story of the Negro in RI, Urban League of Greater Rhode Island, 1954
Bartlett, John R. (ed.), Records of the Colony of RI and Providence Plantations in New England, 1678 to 1706, Volume III, Knowles and Anthony, 1858
Berlin, Ira, and Hoffman, Ronald, Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution, University of Illinois, 1986
Bicknell, Thomas W., History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family, and some collected…, Bicknell, 1913
Bicknell, Thomas W., A History of the Town of Barrington, RI, Snow and Farnham, 1898
Clark-Pujara, Christy, Dark work: The business of Slavery in RI, New York University Press, 2016
Coleman, Peter J., The Transformation of RI, 1790-1860, Brown University Press, 1963
Cottrol, Robert J., The Afro-Yankees: Providence’s Black community in the Antebellum Era, Greenwood Press, 1982
Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious triangle: RI and the African slave trade, 1700-1807, Temple University Press, 1981
Geake, Robert A., and Spears, Loren, From slaves to soldiers: The First RI Regiment in the American Revolution, Westholm Publishing, 2016
Grundset, Eric G., Forgotten patriots: African-American and American Indian patriots in the Revolutionary War…, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 2008
Herndon, Virginia W., Unwelcome Americans: Living on the margin in Early New England, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
Horton, James O., and Horton, Lois E, Slavery and public history: The Tough stuff of American memory, University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Johnston, William D., Slavery in RI, 1775-1776, Papers from the Historical Seminary of Brown University, 1894
Jones, Daniel P., The economic and social transformation of Rural RI, 1780-1850, Northeastern University Press, 1992
Mason, Alverdo H., Genealogy of the Sampson Mason Family, A. H. Mason, 1903
Melish, Joanne Pope, Disowning Slavery: Gradual emancipation and ‘Race’ in New England, 1780-1860, Cornell Univ., 2000
O’Toole, Marjory Gomez, If Jane should want to be sold: Stories of enslavement, indenture, and freedom in Little Compton, RI, Little Compton Historical Society, 2016
Pierson, William D., Black Yankees: The development of an Afro-American subculture in 18th Century New England, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988
Popek, Daniel M., “They Fought Bravely, But Were Unfortunate”…..The Story of Rhode Island’s Black Regiment…, Anchor House, 2015
Register of Seaman’s Protection Certificates from the Providence, RI Customs Districts, 1796-1870
RI Black Heritage Society, Creative survival: The Providence Black community in the Nineteenth Century, RI Black Heritage Society, 1995
RI Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, Warren, RI, Statewide Preservation Report B-W-1, RI Historic Preservation Commission, 1975
Rider, Sidney, S., An Historical Inquiry concerning the attempt to raise a Regiment of slaves by RI During the War of Revolution, S. S. Rider, 1880
Roediger, D. and Blatt, M. H. (eds.), The Meaning of slavery in the North, Garland Publishing, 1999
SenGupta, Gunja, From Slavery to poverty, New York University Press, 2009
Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2007
Sweet, John W., Bodies politic: Negotiating race in the American North, 1730-1830, University of Penn. Press,
2003 Warren 250th Anniversary Committee, Warren 250th Anniversary book, Town of Warren, 1998
Wright, Otis, History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917, Published by the Town, 1917
Youngken, Richard C., African Americans in Newport,: An Introduction to the heritage of African Americans in Newport, RI, 1770-1945, RI Historic Preservation and Heritage Commission and RI Black Heritage Society, 1995
Primary sources
Aaron Lopez Papers and Aaron Lopez Account Book, Newport Historical Society
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Town of Warren, 1774-1844
Newport Historical Society
Rhode Island Judicial Archives
Rhode Island State Archives
Warren Town Records Collection, 1746-1811, Volume 1, Parts 1 & 2,
Wills and Inventories of the Town of Warren, Volume 1, 1746-1789, Volume 2, 1789-1802, Volume 3, 1810-1819
Theses
Clark-Pujara, Christy, Slavery, emancipation, and Black freedom in RI, 1652-1842, Thesis, University of Iowa,
2009 Glickman, Jessica, A War at the heart of Man: The Structure And construction of ships bound for Africa, Thesis, University of RI, 2015
Morrill, Rebecca, Religion and social influences upon the Anti-Slavery Movement in RI, 1773-1799, Thesis, Brown University, 1989
Websites
Internet Archives archive.org MA,
Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 ancestry.com
RI Historic Cemetery Commission Database rihistoriccemeteries.org
RI Vital Extracts, 1636-1899 ancestry.com
RI, Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 ancestry.com
Slavery in the North http://www.slavenorth.com
US Census Bureau us census.gov
US Revolutionary War Rolls ancestry.com
Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database slavevoyages.org
Wills and Inventories, Warren, RI
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