Resources

Pero G. Dagbovie, “Reflections on Black Public History: Past, Present, Future,” in Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
James Oliver Horton, “Slavery in American History: An Uncomfortable National Dialogue” in Slavery and Public History

Hilary Green, “The Burden of the University of Alabama’s Hallowed Grounds”
Deborah Gray White, “My History in History”
Leslie Harris, “Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery”
Jazma Sutton, “Go to the Attics, the Closets, and the Basements”: Black Women’s Intergenerational Practices of Memory Keeping in Oxford, Ohio”
Tiya Miles, “Love’s Practitioner” in All that She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Emily Owens, “Preface: On Lies (or, after Archival Failure) in Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
“Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive: An Interview with Marisa Fuentes” on Black Perspectives

Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co, Publishers, 1868), pp. 11–90 and 139-151, accessed on Documenting the American South. (LinkLinks to an external site..)
Peter Bruner, A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom. Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle
Norman R. Yetman, “An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives,” 2001, accessed in the Library of Congress.
“The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection,” accessed on Library of Congress.

Ch. 2 “Old Money Rutgers University and the Political Economy of Slavery in New Jersey” in Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (online)
Ch. 3 “His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History” in Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (online)
Ch.4 “'I Hereby Bequeath... ": Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen’s College” in Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (online)
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, “That ‘Oman Took Delight in Sellin’ Slaves” in They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Daina Ramey Berry, Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Soul Values, in The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Matthew Salafia, Chapter 3. Slaveholding Liberties in Slavery’s Borderland
Tiya Miles, “Beyond a Boundary: Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide
Cameron Shriver and Bobbe Burke, “Founding” and "Educating for Empire” in Our People Believe in Education: The Unlikely Alliance of the Miami Tribe and Miami University

“Oxford’s Three Colleges for Women,” 55-57 and “New Miami: Embracing Professionalism,” 83-133 in Miami University, 1809-2009: Bicentennial Perspectives, Curtis W. Ellison
Matijasic, Thomas D. “The African Colonization Movement and Ohio’s Protestant Community.” Phylon (1960-) 46, no. 1 (1985): 16–24.
Alessandra McLoughlin, Love and Dishonor: Miami University and Slavery in the Antebellum Era (M.A. Thesis)

Meyers, Historic Black Settlements of Ohio (entire book)
Ebenezer Tucker, “Colored People,” 133-141, in History of Randolph County, Indiana
Brent Campney, “The Antebellum Old Northwest: For the white man, and the white man only” in Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest
John Milholland, The Negro in Oxford, Chapters 1-3, p. 1-25. (Available online at Miami University Libraries Digital Collections, Miami University Theses and Dissertations)

Cheryl LaRoche, “The Geography of Resistance,” in Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
Nikki Taylor, “A Place Called Freedom: The 1829 Riot and Emigration” in Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802–1868
Gabrielle Foreman, “Black Organizing, Print Advocacy, and Collective Authorship in The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
Jewon Woo, “Deleted Name But Indelible Body” in The Colored Conventions Movement