MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
African - Americans
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land. The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1991. 410 pages. Hardcover.
Thum, Marcella. Black America. A Directory of Historic and Cultural Sites Relating to Black Americans. Hippocrene Books. New York. 1991. 384 pages. Softcover.
Organized by state, this book describes historic homes, art and history museums, parks, monuments, landmarks of he civil rights movement, battlefields and forts, colleges and churches, all of which are open to the public.
Price $6.00
Indiana
Review of the South Bend Fugitive Slave Case, Tried in 1849, '50, and '51. An Incident of the Times That Tried Men's Souls. A. Beal, Book and Printer. 1873. Reprinted 1993 by Michiana History Publications. 23 pages.
Written by an actual participant in the events, this booklet provides a good overview of the events that brought Kentucky slave owners to Michigan to recapture an escaped slave family, and the attempts of the family's friends to save them. The slave owner sued South Bend citizens for their attempts to stop him from returning them to Kentucky. The suit was in the state and national courts for three years.
Price: $3.00
We, the People. Indiana and the United States Constitution. Lectures in Observance of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. Indiana Historical Society. Indianapolis. 1987. 136 pages. Softcover.
Several authors have combined their talents to contribute essays for this book. Dr. Patrick Furlong provides a seventeen page discussion on the South Bend Fugitive Slave Case.
Price: $5.00
Michigan
Hesslink, George K. Black Neighbors. Negroes in a Northern Rural Community. Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis. 2
nd edition. 1974. 325 pages. Softcover.Note: front cover has some wear.
A fascinating historical and sociological account of the development, persistence, and problems of a Cass County, Michigan community that has remained bi-racial in character for more than a century. Discusses, education, the economic situation, politics, and much more.
Pennsylvania
Gregg, Robert. Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression. Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890 - 1940. Temple University Press. Philadelphia. 1993. 272 pages. Hardcover.
Until World War II, churches were the largest and most elaborate economic, social and political institutions organized by African Americans. Each denomination had its own structure. In Philadelphia, the largest black denomination was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was started in 1816, although African Americans also formed other Methodist churches. This book discusses various Methodist churches in Philadelphia, their social commitments, expanding services and attempts to meet the needs of today's African American needs.
Price: 35.00
Virginia
Dew, Charles B. Bond of Iron. Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. W. W. Norton and Co. New York. 1994. 429 pages. Hardcover.
Buffalo Forge was an extensive iron-making and farming enterprise located approximately nine miles southeast of Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia. By the time of the Civil War almost every job on the Buffalo Forge property was performed by slave labor. The owners, William Weaver and Daniel C. D. Brady, kept very detailed records. From these records, we have day-to-day look at the slavery community's functions and developments.
Price: $25.00
Mullin, Gerald W. Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Cenury Virginia. Oxford University Press. Oxford and New York. 1972. 219 pages. Softcover.
This is a path breaking theses concerning the relationship between African cultural survivals and the prevalence of slave revolts.
Price: $7.00