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  • "Colonial enslavement of Native Americans included those who surrendered, too." News from Brown. Brown University. February 15, 2017. Accessed March 6, 2018. https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/02/enslavement 
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  • Defoe, Daniel. The History of the Pyrates. London: Ch. Rivington, J. Lacy and J. Stone, 1724. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/defoe/daniel/pyrates2/index.html 
  • "Deposition of Seaman William Johnson and Peter Lochcort Concerning the Voyage of the Pink Charles, August 4, 1685." In The Dongan Papers: Admiralty Court and other records of the administration of New York Governor Thomas Dongan, edited by Peter Chistoph. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
  • di Bonaventura, Allegra. For Adam’s Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England. New York: Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2013.
  • di Bonaventura, Allegra. “This Little World: Family and Slavery in Old New England, 1678-1764.” PhD diss., Yale University, 2008.
  • Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. A Fragile Freedom: African American Women in the Antebellum City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Slave, Ona Judge. New York: Atria/37INK, 2017.
  • Edgerton, Douglass. Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Eltis, David and David Richardson. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
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  • Farrow, Anne. The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
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  • Faust, Drew Gilpin. “Recognizing Slavery at Harvard.” Originally published March 30, 2016 in The Harvard Crimson, accessed March 6, 2018. https://www.harvard.edu/slavery 
  • Fishman, George. African American Struggle for Freedom and Equality: The Development of a People’s Identity, New Jersey, 1624-1850. New York: Garland, 1997.
  • Fitts, Robert K. Inventing New England’s Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth-Century Narragansett, Rhode Island. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
  • Foote, Thelma. Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Foy, Charles. “Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves Used Northern Seaports’ Maritime Industry To Escape and Create Trans-Atlantic Identities, 1713-1783.” PhD diss. Rutgers University, 2008.
  • Gallas, Kristin and James DeWolf Perry, eds. Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
  • Gellman, David N. Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
  • Glaude, Eddie S. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. New York City: Broadway Books, 2016.
  • Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr. The Trial of and Execution, for Petit Treason of Mark and Phillis, Slaved of Capt. John Codman. Cambridge: University Press, 1883. https://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/llst/023/023.pdf 
  • Griswold, Mac. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
  • Haley, Jacquetta M. “The Slaves of Philipsburg Manor, Upper Mills.” Research Report. Pocantico Hills, NY: Historic Hudson Valley, 1988.
  • Harris, Leslie. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York 1626-1883. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  • Hayes, Katherine Howlett. Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
  • Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process. The Colonial Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
  • Hodges, Graham Russell and Alan Edward Brown, eds. Pretends to be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994.
  • Hodges, Graham Russell. Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey 1613-1863. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
  • Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865. Madison: Madison House, 1997.
  • Horne, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins and of United States of America. New York City: New York University Press, 2014.
  • Horton, James and Lois Horton, eds. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2006.
  • Horton, James and Lois Horton. In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Black, 1700-1860. New York Oxford, 1997.
  • A report of the record commissioners of the city of Boston containing the Boston records from 1660 to 1701. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881.
  • Desrochers, Robert E. “Slave-for-Sale Advertisements and Slavery in Massachusetts, 1704-1781.” The William and Mary Quarterly 59, no. 3, 2002: 623-664.
  • The New York African Burial Ground: Unearthing the African Presence in Colonial New York. Washington, DC: Howard University Press and General Services Administration, 2009.
  • Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. 1787. Reprint, New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982.
  • Johnson, Kathleen Eagen. Van Cortlandt Manor. Tarrytown: Historic Hudson Valley Press, 1997.
  • Jones, Rhett. S. “Plantation Slavery in the Narragansett Country of Rhode Island, 1690-1790: A Preliminary Study.” Plantation Society 2, no. 2, 1986: 157-170.
  • Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Towards the Negro, 1550-1812. New York: W.W. Norton, 1968.
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  • Klein, Herbert. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • Klepp, Susan E. “The Physical Experience of Northern Slavery: Housing, Food, Health and Medical Care.” Research Report: Tarrytown, NY: Historic Hudson Valley, 1995.
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  • Maika, Dennis J. “Encounters: Slavery and The Philipse Family 1680-1751,” in Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, ed. Roger Panetta. New York City: Fordham University Press, 2009, 35-72.
  • Maika, Dennis J. “Philipse Family Commerce, 1650-1750.” Research Report. Pocantico Hills, NY: Historic Hudson Valley, 1995.
  • Maika, Dennis J. “Slaves and Slaveholding in New York’s Philipse Family, 1660-1750.” Research Report. Pocantico Hills, NY: Historic Hudson Valley, 1997.
  • McManus, Edgar. Black Bondage in the North. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1973.
  • McManus, Edgar J. A History of Negro Slavery in New York. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966.
  • Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Roace in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  • Mitros, David, ed. Slave Records of Morris County, New Jersey: 1756-1841. Morristown: The Morris County Heritage Commission, 2002.
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  • Newell, Margaret E. “The Changing Nature of Indian Slavery in New England.” Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience. ed. Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury. (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003), 107-130. https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/1397 
  • O’Toole, Marjory Gomez. If Jane Should Want to be Sold: Stories of Enslavement, Indenture and Freedom in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Little Compton: Little Compton Historical Society, 2016.
  • Price, Clement Alexander. Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1980.
  • Rappleye, Charles. Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
  • Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York City: Penguin Books, 2007.
  • Roediger, David and Martin H. Blatt. The Meaning of Slavery in the North. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
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  • Saint, Chandler B. and Robert Pierce Forbes. Venture Smith. Torrington: Beecher House Center for Equal Rights and Documenting Venture Smith Project, 2018.
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  • White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
  • White, Shane. “Slavery in New York State in the Early Republic.” in Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 14. No. 2 (December, 1995). Pp. 1-29.
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  • Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • Wilder, Craig Steven. “ ‘Sons from the southward & some form the west indies: The Academy and Slavery in Revoluionary America.” In Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies, edited by Leslie Haris, James T. Campbell and Alfred L. Brophy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019.
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  • Williams, Heather. Help Me to Find My People: The African Ameican Search for Family Lost in Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
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