General:
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Missouri churches and associations. /Microfilm Rolls 55-56/

Bellamy, Donnie Duglie. Slavery, Emancipation, and Racism in Missouri, 1850-1865. Columbia, MO: D. D. Bellamy, 1971. 327p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.8 B414be/

Blattner, Teresa. People of Color: Black Genealogical Records and Abstracts from Missouri Sources. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1993. /GC 977.8 B61p V.1-2/

Burke, Diane Mutti. On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010. 413p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 977.8 B917ona/

Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. The Lynching of Cleo Wright. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 274p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.802 Si29cap/

Coggswell, Gladys Caines. Stories from the Heart: Missouri's African American Heritage. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. 141p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.8 C656s/

Duffner, Robert W. Slavery in Missouri River Counties, 1820-1865. Columbia, MO: R. W. Duffner, 1974. 229p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.8 D873sl/

Frazier, Harriet C. Runaway and Freed Missouri Slavse and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004. 214p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.8 F869r/

Frazier, Harriet C. Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001. 324p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.8 F869sl/

Freedmen's Aid Society Records, 1866-1932. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000. Published with The Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia. George R. Smith College, Sedalia, MO. /Microfilm Rolls 81-82/

Green, Barbara Layenette. The Slavery Debate in Missouri, 1831-1855. Columbia, MO: B. L. Green, 1980. 247p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.8 G82sl/

Greene, Lorenzo J., Gary R. Kremer and Antonio F. Holland. Missouri's Black Heritage. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1993. Revised edition. 255p. Appendix. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.8 G83mi/

Grothaus, Larry H. The Negro in Missouri Politics, 1890-1941. Columbia, MO: L. H. Grothaus, 1970. 247p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.8 G915ne/

Harper, Kimberly. White Man's Heaven: The Lynching and Explusion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909. Fayettevillw, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. 325p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.8 H231wh/

Hurt, R. Douglas. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992. 334p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.8 H946ag/

Lee, George R. Slavery North of St. Louis. Canton, MO: Lewis County Historical Society, 1999. 188p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.8 L44sl/

McLaurin, Melton A. Celia, A Slave: A True Story of Violence and Retribution in Antebellum Missouri. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1991. 148p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.801 C13mc/

Missouri 1850 Slave Schedules: Federal Census Index. West Jordan, UT: Genealogical Services, 1988. 388p. /GC 977.8 J12mka/

Morgans, James Patrick. The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations, 1840-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010. 221p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 978 M823mo/

Nolen, Rose M. African Americans in Mid-Missouri: From Pioneers to Ragtimes. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. 127p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.8 N717af/

Parks, Arnold G. Lincoln University, 1920-1970. Columbia, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. 127p. Bibliography. Photographs. The Campus History Series. /GC 977.802 J35par/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867: Part E, Arkansas (1824-1867), Missouri (1806-1860), Tennessee (1792-1868), and Texas (1830-1867). Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2005. 551p. Index. /GC 975 G941a Pt. E/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867: Part E, Missouri (1806-1860). . Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2005. /Series II, Part E, Microfilm Rolls 3-9/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Series I, Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1999. Missouri Petitions. /Microfilm Roll 23/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography(Arkansas Narratives and Missouri Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. /GC 976.7 Ar486 Part 7 Sec. 2/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography(Missouri...Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1977. /GC 929.11 Ar486 Sec. 4/

Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1969. Microcopy M816. St. Louis. /Microfilm Roll 29/

Shearer, Gary W. The Civil War, Slavery, and Reconstruction in Missouri: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources and Selected Primary Sources. Angwin, CA: G. W. Shearer, 2001. 64p. /GC 977.8 Sh31ci/

Slave Schedules for 1850 - Missouri. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1964. Microcopy 432. /Microfilm Rolls 422-424/

Slave Schedules for 1860 -- Missouri. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1967. Microcopy 653. /Microfilm Roll 605/

Stone, Jeffrey C. Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860. New York: Routledge, 2006. 107p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Tables. /GC 977.8 St711s/

Weant, Kenneth E. . Civil War Records United States Colored Troops from Missouri, Volume 10. Arlington, TX: K. E. Weant, 2013. 143p.

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

Boone County:
O'Dell, Charles A. Black Households in Columbia, Missouri, 1901-1909: A Directory. Columbia, MO: C. A. O'Dell, 1988. 101p. /GC 977.802 C72o/

Callaway County:
Barrow, Loyd M. The Negro Kingdom: Three Generation, The Vanished Colony. Greenville, ME: Moosehead Communications, Inc., 1996. 86p. Charts. Maps. Tables. /GC 977.801 C13barr/

Camden County:
Pope, Neta. Early African-American Families of Camden and Laclede Counties, Missouri. Lebanon, MO: Laclede County Genealogical Society, 2003. 203p. Index. /GC 977.801 C14p/

Cape Girardeau County:
Shrum, Edison E. The Slaves and Slave Owners of Cape Girardeau County. Scott City, MO: E. E. Shrum, 1987. 175p. /GC 977.801 C17sh/

Cooper County:
Bartels, Carolyn M. Cooper County Colored Marriages, 1865-1866. Shawnee Mission, KS: C. M. Bartels, 198-. 11p. Index. /GC 977.801 C78b/

Dade County:
Bloomer, Kathy and Lorraine Adams. Slave Owners of Dade County, Missouri. Greenfield, MO: Dade County Genealogical Society, 2001. 145p. Index. /GC 977.801 D12bla/

West, Goldie, et. al. The Dade County Black History. Greenfield, MO: Dade County Genealogical Society, 19--. 237p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.801 D12wea/

Daviess County:
Sims, Mary Inglis. Daviess County, Missouri 1850-1860 Slave Owners. Sacramento, CA: M. I. Sims, 1984. 12p. /GC 977.801 D28si/

Jackson County:
Coulter, Charles E. "Take Up the Black Man's Burden:" Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 345p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.802 K13co/

Curtis Annette W. Jackson County Missouri in Black & White. Independence, MO: A. W. Curtis, 1995-. Volume One: "Census of Slaves, Their Owners and 'Free Colored' 1850 and 1860." Volume Two: "Jabez Smith: His Slaves, Plantations, Estate, and Heirs." /GC 977.801 J13cua V. 1-2/

Gillis, Delia C. Kansas City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. 127p. Bibliography. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.802 K13gi/

Lester, Larry and Sammy J. Miller. Black Baseball in Kansas City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000. 128p. Photographs. /GC 977.802 K13Les/

Schirmer, Sherry Lamb. A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002. 261p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Tables. /GC 977.802 K13ry/

Johnson County:
Gress, Lucille D. An Informal History of Black Families of the Warrensburg, Missouri, Area. Warrensburg, MO: The Mid-America Press, Inc., 1997. 162p. Drawings. Photographs. /GC 977.802 W25g/

Laclede County:
Pope, Neta. Early African-American Families of Camden and Laclede Counties, Missouri. Lebanon, MO: Laclede County Genealogical Society, 2003. 203p. Index. /GC 977.801 C14p/

Marion County:
Prinsloo, Oleta. The Case of "The Dyed-In-The-Wool Abolitionists" in Mark Twain Country, Marion County, Missouri: An Examination of a Slaveholding Community's Response to Radical Abolitionism in the 1830s and 1840s. Columbia, MO: O. Prinsloo, 2003. 417p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.801 M34pr/

Saint Charles County:
Colored Paths: Historic Community Research(Transcriptions of Original Records which Legalized the Marriages of Freed People of Color in St. Charles County, Colored Marriage Records, May 25, 1865 - November 19, 1871. S. l.: RONNA, 1994. 75p. /GC 977.801 Sa21c/

Mallinckrodt, Anita M. Freed Slaves: Ex-Slaves and Augusta, Missouri's Germans During and After the Civil War. Augusta, MO: Mallinckrodt Communications & Research, 1999. 20p. Illustrations. Notes. Missouri Research Roundtable Papers. /GC 977.801 Sa21mala/

Saint Louis County:
Clamorgan, Cyprian. The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 122p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.802 Sa227by/

Clay, William L. The Jefferson Bank Confrontation: The Struggle for Civil Rights in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO: William L. Clay Scholarship and Research Foundation, c2008. 231p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977802 SA227CLW/

Early, Gerald. "Ain't But a Place." An Anthology of African American Writings about St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1998. 515p. Bibliography. /GC 977.802 Sa227ai/

Faherty, William Barnaby, S.J. and Madeline Barni Oliver. The Religious Roots of Black Catholics of St. Louis. St. Louis, MO: St. Louis University, 1977. 140p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.802 Sa227eya/

Jack, Bryan M. The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. 178p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. /GC 977.802 Sa227hy/

Rawlings, Keith. Gone But Not Forgotten: Quinette Cemetery, A Slave Burial Ground Est. 1866. Kirkwood, MO: K. Rawlings, Youth In Action, Inc., 2003. 158p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 977.802 K64raw/

Wesley, Doris A., ed. Lift Every Voice and Sing: St. Louis African Americans in the Twentieth Century. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 219p. Photographs. /GC 977.802 Sa227Lit/

Who's Who in Black St. Louis: The 2004-2005 First Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2004. 272p. Indices. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 977.802 SA227WHO, 2004-2005/

Who's Who in Black St. Louis: The 2005-2006 Edition. Columbus, OH: Who's Who Publishing, 2005. 300p. Indices. Photographs. /GC 977.802 SA227WHO, 2005-2006/

Wright, John A. Discovering African-American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites. St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994. 210p. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 977.802 Sa227wr/

Wright, John A. Kinloch: Missouri's First Black City. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2000. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.801 Sa25wr/

Wright, John A., Sr. African Americans in Downtown St. Louis. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.802 Sa227wrb/

Wright, John A., Sr. St. Louis: Disappearing Black Communities. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.802 Sa227wrc/

St. Louis County:
Lang, Clarence. Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2009. 324p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.802 Sa227La/

Warren County:
Wesley-Smith United Methodist Church. Colored Paths: Historic Community Research for The Accurate Identification & Documentation of Historically Significant Information Pertaining to African Slaves & Their Descendants; Burial Places of African Slaves & Their Descendants. Wright City, MO: Wesley-Smith United Methodist Church, 1992. Various pages. Photographs. /GC 977.801 W25cp/