John Pitkin Norton Papers (MS 367)

Bacon Family Papers (MS 46)

Harry Croswell Papers (RG 258)

Daggett family papers (MS 1382)

Dwight family papers (MS 187)

Richard Henry Greene Papers (MS 2005)

Hillhouse Family Papers (MS 282)

Morse Family Papers (MS 358)

Joseph Earl Sheffield Letters and Writings

Silliman Family Papers (MS 450)

Joseph Hopkins Twichell Papers (YCAL MSS 755)

Theodore Winthrop Collection (GEN MSS VOL 664)

Woolsey Family Papers (MS 562)

Theodore Dwight Woolsey, President of Yale College, Records (RU 337)

William H. Townsend, Sketches of the Amistad Captives (1839-1840) (GEN MSS 335)

John W. Barber, A History of the Amistad Captives (1840)

Baldwin Family Papers (MS 55)

John Pitkin Norton Papers (MS 367)

Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (2012)

Howard Jones, Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (1987)

Joseph Yannielli, “The Mendi Mission: Africa and the American Abolition Movement” (PhD diss., Yale University, 2015)

Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54)

• Alexander Herritage Newton (left), quartermaster sergeant, and Daniel S. Lathrop, quartermaster sergeant, both of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, circa 1865

Addresses and Proceedings, including the Oration Pronounced by Rev. Dr. Bushnell, at the Commemorative Celebration, Held July 26th, 1865, in Honor of the Alumni of Yale College Who Were in the Military or Naval Service of the United States during the Recent War; Together with the Names Comprised in the Roll of Honor (1866)

Isaac J. Hill, A Sketch of the 29^th Regiment of Colored Troops (1867)

Edward E. Atwater, ed., History of the City of New Haven to the Present Time (1887)

Ellsworth Eliot Jr., Yale in the Civil War (1932)

George A. King, Theodore Dwight Woolsey: His Political and Social Ideas (1956)

Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr., Yale’s Confederates: A Biographical Dictionary (2008)

Matthew Warshauer, Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, & Survival (2011)

Ira Spar, New Haven’s Civil War Hospital: A History of Knight US General Hospital, 1862-1865 (2014)

Buildings, Grounds and Landmarks in New Haven Photographs (RU 685)

David Daggett, Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain … (1790)

Timothy Dwight, A Statistical Account of the City of New-Haven (1811)

A. Doolittle, Plan of New Haven (1824)
Map of the City of New Haven (1830)

Ebenezer Baldwin, Observations on the physical, intellectual, and moral qualities of our colored population: with remarks on the subject of emancipation and colonization (1834)

Price & Lee’s New Haven City Directory… (various years beginning 1840)

Map of the city of New Haven (1852)

Map of the city of New Haven (1859)

Neil Hogan, “A Black Journalist Views Early 19th Century Connecticut,” Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society 35, no. 1 (Fall 1988): 29-46.

Robert Austin Warner, New Haven Negroes: A Social History (1940)

Ronald Mickens, ed., Edward Bouchet: The First African American Doctorate (2002)

Peter Hinks, “‘This Beautiful and Rapidly Improving Section of Our City’: Race, Labor, and Colonizationists in Early Industrializing New Haven, 1800–1830” (2016)

Jacob Oson, A Search for Truth, or an Inquiry for the Origin of the African Nation (1817)

Constitution of the African Improvement Society of New-Haven, 182-?

Bias Stanley Papers, 1796-1854, in Connecticut legal documents collection, 1744-1866

GEN MSS 1294

• Box 3

William Grimes, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Written by Himself (1825)

David Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles (1829)

Amos Gerry Beman scrapbooks, 1830-58

College for Colored Youth: An Account of the New-Haven City Meeting and Resolutions (1831)

Minutes and Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the People of Colour (1831)

"Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven [Connecticut] to William Lloyd Garrison" (1831 May)

"Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven [Connecticut] to William Lloyd Garrison" (1831 September)

"Minutes and Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour" (1832)

Ann Plato, Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry [introduction by James W. C. Pennington]

James W. C. Pennington, A Textbook of the Origin and History of the Colored People (1841)

J. W. C. Pennington, A sermon delivered ... on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 17th, 1842

J. W. C. Pennington, A two years’ absence; or, A farewell sermon, preached ... Nov. 2d, 1845.

James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith, or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington (1850)

William Grimes, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave: Brought Down to the Present Time, Written by Himself (1855)

William Andrews and Regina Mason, eds., Life of William Grimes

James Dana, The African slave trade: A discourse delivered in the city of New-Haven, September 9, 1790, before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom.

[David Daggett], New Haven Auxiliary Colonization Society (1819)

Leonard Bacon, A plea for Africa; delivered in New-Haven (1825)

An Address to the Public by the Managers of the Colonization Society of Connecticut, with an Appendix (1828).

Benjamin Silliman, Some of the Causes of the National Anxiety. An Address Delivered in the Centre Church in New Haven, July 4th, 1832 (1832).

Leonard Bacon, Review of pamphlets on slavery and colonization (1833)

Jonathan Steadfast [David Daggett], Count the Cost: An Address to the People of Connecticut, on Sundry Political Subjects, and Particularly on the Proposition for a New Constitution (1841)

Hugh Davis, Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate

Kenneth Silverman, Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse

Larry Tise, Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840

Rajani Sudan, "Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company" (book chapter)

Guocun Yang. "From Slavery to Emancipation: The African Americans of Connecticut" (dissertation)

Robert Forbes, "Grating the Nutmeg: Slavery and Racism in Connecticut from the Colonial Era to the Civil War" (journal article)

Mary H. Mitchell, "Slavery in Connecticut and Especially in New Haven" (journal article)

Rhoesmary R. Williams, "Demonizing, Dehumanizing, and Whitewashing: Linguistic Examination of The Connecticut Courant's Coverage of Slavery" (master's thesis)

Alison Freehling, "All in the Family? The Master-Slave Relationship in Colonial Connecticut" (Yale senior essay - used with permission)

George C. Groce, Jr., "Benjamin Gale" (journal article)

Kenneth Minkema, "Jonathan Edwards's Defense of Slavery" (journal article)

Kenneth Minkema and Harry S. Stout, "The Edwardsean Tradition and the Antislavery Debate, 1740-1865" (journal article)

Kenneth Minkema, "Jonathan Edwards on Slavery and the Slave Trade" (journal article)

Joseph Yannielli, "Elihu Yale was a Slave Trader" (blog post)

James D. Essig, "Connecticut Ministers and Slavery, 1790-1795" (journal article)

David Menschel, "Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut of Slavery, 1784-1848" (journal article)

Jackson Turner Main, "Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut" (book chapter)

Bernette Mosley-Dozier, "Slavery in the State of Connecticut" (journal article)

Gwendolyn Evans Logan, "The Slave in Connecticut During the American Revolution" (journal article)

Lorenzo J. Greene, "Slave-Holding New England and Its Awakening" (journal article)

James Brewer Stewart, "The New Haven Negro College and the Meanings of Race in New England, 1776-1870" (journal article)

Chauncey W. Fowler, The Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut…(1901)

Lorenzo Johnston Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England (1942)

Barbara W. Brown and James M. Rose, Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900 (1980)

Joseph Avitable, “The Atlantic World Economy and Colonial Connecticut” (PhD diss., University of Rochester, 2009)

Eric Kimball, “An Essential Link in a Vast Chain: New England and the West Indies, 1700-1775” (PhD diss., University of Pittsburgh, 2009)

Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (2013)

Elizabeth J. Normen et al., eds., African American Connecticut Explored (2013)