General:
African American Heritage Trail. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Historical Commission, 2000. 28p. Photographs. Sources. /GC 974.402 C14af/

The American Elm. Springfield, MA: Western Massachusetts Genealogical Society, Inc., 2000. Special African American Issue. Volume 29, No. 3, Fall 2000. /Periodical/

Blatt, Martin H., Thomas J. Brown, and Donald Yacovone, eds. Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 336p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 M38hop/

Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored). Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. 6p. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917, Record Group 94, M1898. [ACPL also owns the 20 microfilm detailed in this descriptive pamphlet.] /GC 973 Un32coq/

Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored). Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917, Record Group 94, M1898. /Microfilm Rolls 1 - 20/

Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored). Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. 7p. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917, Record Group 94, M1801. [ACPL also owns the 16 microfilm detailed in this descriptive pamphlet.] /GC 973 Un32cos/

Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored). Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917, Record Group 94, M1801. /Microfilm 1 - 16/

Dorman, Franklin A. Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts, 1742-1998. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998. 524p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.4 D735t/

Emilio, Luis F. History of the Fifty-fourth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865: A Brave Black Regiment. Boston, MA: The Boston Book Company, 1894. 452p. Appendix. Index. Map. /GC 973.74 M38eml/

Gilbert, Kevin L. The Ordeal of Edward Greeley Loring: Fugitive Slavery, Judicial Reform, and the Politics of Law in 1850s Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: K. L. Gilbert, 1997. 363p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.4 G372or/

Hancock, Scott. "The Law Will Make You Smart:" Legal Consciousness, Rights Rhetoric, and African American Identity Formation in Massachusetts, 1641-1855. Durham, NH: S. Hancock, 1999. 277p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65hanc/

Holden, Teresa Blue. "Earnest Women Can Do Anything:" The Public Career of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, 1842-1904. St. Louis, MO: T. B. Holden, 2005. 246p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65hod/

Hunter, T. K. Publishing Freedom, Winning Arguments: "Somerset," Natural Rights and Massachusetts Freedom Cases, 1772-1836. New York: T. K. Hunter, 2005. 353p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.4 H919pu/

Manegold, C. S. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 317p. Index. Notes. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 974.4 M312t/

Minardi, Margot Lee. The Inevitable Negro: Making Slavery History in Massachusetts, 1770-1863. Cambridge, MA: M. L. Minardi, 2007. 340p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.4 M661in/

Minority Military Service, Massachusetts, 1775-1783. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1989. 34p. /GC 973.34 M38m/

The Museum-Smith Court News. Boston, MA: Museum of Afro-American History, Abiel Smith School, v.1-, 1988-. /Periodical/

Negro Protest Pamphlets: A Compendium. New York: Arno Press, c1969. 6 pamphlets. /GC 973.068 N3127/

On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. 139p. Photographs. /GC 973.74 M38goo/

Slavery/Antislavery in New England. Boston, MA: Boston University, 2005. 184p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings 2003. /GC 974 D85s 2003/

Trudeau, Noah Andre. Voices of the 55th: Letters from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865. Dayton, OH: Morningside House, Inc., 1996. 258p. Appendices. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 M38vo/

We Fight for Freedom: Massachusetts, African Americans and the Civil War. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001. 36p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 973.34 M38wdy/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Rolls 5-6/

Berkshire County:
Piper, Emilie S. American of African Descent: An Annotated Bibliography of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and Some Connecticut & New York Historical References Through the Civil War Period. Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Athenaeum, Local History Department, 2005. 16p. /GC 973.068 P662am/

Bristol County:
Grover, Kathryn. The Fugitives Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 350p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 N421gr/

Dukes County:
Dresser, Thomas. African Americans of Martha's Vineyard: From Enslavement to Presidential Visit. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. 160p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.401 D88dr/

Hayden, Robert C. and Karen E. Hayden. African-Americans On Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket: A History of People, Places and Events. Boston, MA: Select Publications, 1999. 296p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.4 H324af/

Essex County:
Uscilka, Jane M. The Newburyport Black Heritage Trail: Searching for African-American History in Newburyport. [Newburyport, Mass.] : J.M. Uscilka, 2002. 34p. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. /GC 974.402 N425us/

Hampden County:
Carvalho, Joseph III. Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1650-1865. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. 2nd Edition. 400p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. /GC 974.401 H17caa/

Carvalho, Joseph, III. Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1650-1855. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984. 211p. Index. /GC 974.401 H17ca/

Hampshire County:
Smith, James Avery. The History of the Black Population of Amherst, Massachusetts, 1728-1870. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. 145p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.402 Am47sm/

Middlesex County:
Chan, Alexandra A. Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 284p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.402 M465cha/

Chan, Alexandra A. The Slaves of Colonial New England: Discourses of Colonialism and Identity at the Isaac Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 1732-1775. Boston, MA: A. A. Chan, 2003. 2 volumes. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.402 M465ch/

Lemire, Elise. Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 233p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 974.402 C74le/

Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 233p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 C74oy/

Nantucket County:
Hayden, Robert C. and Karen E. Hayden. African-Americans On Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket: A History of People, Places and Events. Boston, MA: Select Publications, 1999. 296p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.4 H324af/

Johnson, Robert, ed. Nantucket's People of Color: Essays on History, Politics and Community. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006. 254p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.402 N15nan/

Suffolk County:
Cathcart, Dolita Dannet. White Gloves, Black Rebels: The Decline of Elite Black National Political Leadership in Boston, 1870-1929. Boston, MA: D. D. Cathcart, 2004. 388p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65cat/

Cromwell, Adelaide M. The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750-1950. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 1994. 284p. Bibliography. Charts. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 B65cr/

Greenidge, Kerri. Boston's Abolitionists. Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2006. 65p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. New England Remembers Series. /GC 974.402 B65grd/

Hayden, Robert C. African-Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1991. 187p. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.402 B65hay/

Holland, Juanita Marie. "Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture:" Edward Mitchell Bannister and the Boston Community of African American Artists, 1848-1901. New York: J. M. Holland, 1998. 417p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65hoj/

Johnson, Violet Showers. The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. 181p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 B65jn/

Leonard, William C. Vigor in Arduis: A History of Boston's African-American Catholic Community, 1788-1988. Boston, MA: W. C. Leonard, 1999. 320p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65Leo/

Levesque, George A. Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1850-1860. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 537p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. /GC 974.402 B65lev/

Levesque, George A. Black Boston: Negro Life in Garrison's Boston, 1800-1860. Binghamton, NY: G. A. Levesque, 1976. 520p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65Leu/

Maginnes, David Russell. The Point of Honor: The Rendition of the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns, Boston, 1854. New York: D. R. Maginnes, 1973. 338p. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65mad/

Omori, Kazuteru. Burden of Blackness: Quest for "Equality" Among Black "Elites" in Late Nineteenth Century Boston. Amherst, MA: K. Omori, 2001. 265p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65om/

Parsons, William S. & Margaret A. Drew. The African Meeting House in Boston: A Sourcebook. Boston, MA: Museum of Afro-American History, 19--. 225p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.402 B65par/

Worcester County:
Greenwood, Janette Thomas. First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 241p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 W89gr/

McCarthy, B. Eugene and Thomas L. Doughton, eds. From Bondage to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narratives. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. 325p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.402 W89mc/