Bibliography
The sources below present a sampling of recent scholarship and public humanities projects about racial slavery, settler colonialism, resistance, and freedom in New England and North America more broadly, including maritime contexts, as well as public-facing work by Native American and African-American communities related to these histories and legacies.
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Arnold, Samuel. History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Vol. 1. New York: D. Appleton & co., 1859-60.
Barlett, John ed. The Complete Writings of Roger Williams: Volume Six. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.
Barry, John. Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul. New York: Penguin Group, 2012.
Benard, Akeia A.F. The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, R.I., 1774-1826. Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 2008.
Bialuschewski, Arne and Linford D. Fisher. “Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Directions in the History of Native American Slavery Studies.” Ethnohistory 64:1 (Jan. 2017): 1–17.
Blackhawk, Ned. “‘Dey Take Indian For Slave’: Visions of Enslavement in Marcus Rediker’s The Slave Ship and Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger.” Atlantic Studies 7:1 (March 2010): 27-32.
Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Bragdon, Kathleen. Native People of Southern New England 1500-1650. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
Bragdon, Kathleen. Native People of Southern New England 1650-1775. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. New Haven: Yale University Press: 2018.
Brooks, Lisa. Part III, “Colonial Containment and Networks of Kinship: Expanding the Map of Captivity, Resistance, and Alliance.” In Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018
Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (Brown University, 2006). https://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf
Browne, Katrina, et al. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North. http://www.tracesofthetrade.org
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Warren, James. God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England. New York: Scribner, 2018.
Warren, Wendy. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. New York: Liveright, 2016.
Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Williams, Roger. A Key Into the Language of America. New York: Cosimo Classics, 2009.
Woodward, Carl R. Plantation in Yankeeland: Smith Castle, America’s Oldest Plantation House. Wickford RI: Cocumscussoc Association, 1971.
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Sample biographies of Native Americans and African Americans
Hannah Babock: https://dawnlandvoices.org/collections/items/show/267; Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Yale University Press, 2015), 239.
Paul Cuffe: https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/paul-cuffe/who-was-captain-paul-cuffe/.
Isaac Glasko: https://www.ctexplored.org/glasgo-isaac-glasko-forges-a-life/
Venture Smith: https://teachitct.org/lessons/venture-smith-from-slavery-to-connecticut-businessman/.
Lewis Temple: https://educators.mysticseaport.org/artifacts/temple_toggle_iron/.
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Global Curatorial Project is a project co-convened by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, and Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture. https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/https%3A/www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/global-curatorial-project/global-curatorial-pro
Glover, Jeffrey. “Wunnaumwáyean: Roger Williams, English Credibility, and the Colonial Land Market.” Early American Literature 41, no. 3 (2006).
Hannah-Jones, Nikole, et al. The 1619 Project and The 1619 Project Curriculum (Pulitzer Center, 2019). https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum
Hardesty, Jared. Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England. Amherst: Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.
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, 2013.
Herndon, Ruth Wallis and Ella Wilcox Sekatau. “Colonizing the Children: Indian Youngsters in Servitude in Early Rhode Island.” In Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, eds. Colin Calloway and Neal Salisbury. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003. 137-76.
Hopkins, John Christian (Narragansett journalist and author of a historical fiction book drawing upon experiences of Indigenous enslavement in the Caribbean). The Pirate Prince Carlomagno. Wampum Books, 2011.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Lind, Louise. William Blackstone: Sage Of The Wilderness. Bowie: Heritage Books, 1993.
Lonetree, Amy. Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
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Mancini, Jason et al. The Indian Mariners Project. https://indianmarinersproject.com.
Manegold, C.S. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Marshall, Chandra. “Entangled Legacies.” Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, https://simmonscenter.brown.edu/work-center/public-humanities-projects/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/entangled-legacies#:~:text=Inspired%20by%20the%20work%20of,Native%2C%20and%20Afro%2DIndigenous%20communities
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Museum and Research. Exhibitions on tribal histories, Pequot survivance, and responses to settler colonialism. http://www.pequotmuseum.org/PermanentExhibits.aspx.
Melish, Joane Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Miles, Tiya. “Beyond a Boundary: Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide,” in “Forum: Settler Colonialism in Early American History.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76:3 (July 2019): 417-426.
Miles, Tiya, and Sharon Patricia Holland, eds. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
Miller, Marla R. Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Mystic Seaport Museum. “Launching a Mishoon” (2015). https://www.mysticseaport.org/news/launching-a-mishoon/.
Newell, Margaret Ellen. Brethren By Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
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O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
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Rickman, Ray, et al. Stages of Freedom walking tours, Providence, Rhode Island. https://www.stagesoffreedom.org/walking-tours
Ripples. Through a Wampanoag Lens. Exhibition at New Bedford Whaling Museum, featuring wampum and other art by Elizabeth James Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag), 2020. https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/ripples-through-a-wampanoag-lens
Rubertone, Patricia E. Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
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Schultz, Eric and Tougias, Michael. King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict. Vermont: Countryman Press, 1999.
Scott, Mack, III (enrolled member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe and Ph.D. in History). “Our Hidden History: Narragansetts Offered Refuge to Formerly Enslaved.” Providence Journal, Aug. 15, 2020. https://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/20200815/our-hidden-history-mack-scott-iii-narragansetts-offered-refuge-to-formerly-enslaved.
Shoemaker, Nancy, ed. Living with Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Silverman, David. This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Slave Wrecks Project, a project led by the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/initiatives/slave-wrecks-projectSmith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies. New York: Zed Books, 1999.
Smallwood, Stephanie. “Reflections on Settler Colonialism, the Hemispheric Americas, and Chattel Slavery.” In “Forum: Settler Colonialism in Early American History.” The William and Mary Quarterly 76:3 (July 2019): 407-416.
SmokeSygnals Marketing and Communications and The Indian Spiritual and Cultural Training Council Inc. Captured, 1614, part of “‘Our’Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History.” https://www.plymouth400inc.org/our-story-exhibit-wampanoag-history.
Tomaquag Museum (Narragansett-Niantic, dir. Lorén Spears). Educational and public-facing materials about Tribal histories and present-day legacies. https://www.tomaquagmuseum.org/resources.
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Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University. Makers Unknown?: Material Objects & the Enslaved, exhibition catalog (Providence: CSSJ, 2017).
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University. Slavery and Legacy Walking Tour: Engaging the Past through the Present (2019).
Clark-Pujara, Christy. Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Coombs, Linda. “Maushop Brings His People Home.” Dawnland Voices. https://dawnlandvoices.org/collections/items/show/351.
DeLucia, Christine. Chap. 7, “Algonquian Diasporas: Indigenous Bondages, Fugitive Geographies, and the Edges of Atlantic Memories.” In Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Di Bonaventura, Allegra. For Adam’s Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England. New York: Liveright, 2013.
“Discovering Amistad and Mystic Seaport Museum Partnership,” summer 2020. https://discoveringamistad.org/discovering-amistad-mystic-seaport-museum
Dove, Dawn. “Alienation of Indigenous Students in the Public School System,” Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England, eds. Siobhan Senier et al. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Eliot, John. The Indian grammar begun, or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the futherance of the Gospel among them / by John Eliot. Cambridge: Marmaduke Johnson, 1666.
Farrow, Anne. The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Farrow, Anne, with Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. New York: Balantine Books, 2005.
Fisher, Julie. “Roger Williams and the Indian Business.” The New England Quarterly, 94, no.3 (2021).
Fisher, Julie and Silverman, David. Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Fisher, Linford D. Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas. Public humanities project, Brown University. https://indigenousslavery.org
Fisher, Linford D. “‘Why Shall Wee Have Peace to Bee Made Slaves’: Indian Surrenderers During and After King Philip’s War.” Ethnohistory 64:1 (Jan. 2017): 91–114.
Fuentes, Marisa J. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
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Eliot, John. The Indian grammar begun, or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the futherance of the Gospel among them / by John Eliot. Cambridge: Marmaduke Johnson, 1666.
Farrow, Anne. The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Farrow, Anne, with Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. New York: Balantine Books, 2005.
Fisher, Julie. “Roger Williams and the Indian Business.” The New England Quarterly, 94, no.3 (2021).
Fisher, Julie and Silverman, David. Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Fisher, Linford D. Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas. Public humanities project, Brown University. https://indigenousslavery.org
Fisher, Linford D. “‘Why Shall Wee Have Peace to Bee Made Slaves’: Indian Surrenderers During and After King Philip’s War.” Ethnohistory 64:1 (Jan. 2017): 91–114.
Fuentes, Marisa J. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.