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Bridges, Roger D. \u201cAntebellum Struggle for Citizenship.\u201d<\/a> Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society<\/em> 108, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 296\u2013321.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. America\u2019s First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915<\/em>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dexter, Darrel. Bondage in Egypt: Slavery in Southern Illlinois. <\/em>Cape Girardeau, MO: Center for Regional History Southeast Missouri State University, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dolinar, Brian, ed. The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers<\/em>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, eds. The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foy, Charles R. and Michael I. Bradley. \u201cThe African American Community in Brushy Fork, Illinois, 1818-1861.\u201d<\/a> Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society <\/em>112, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 129-162. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gertz, Elmer. \u201cThe Black Laws of Illinois.\u201d Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society <\/em> 56 no. 3 Emancipation Centennial Issue (Autumn, 1963): 454-473.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gliozzo, Charles A. \u201cJohn Jones: A Study of a Black Chicagoan.\u201d<\/a> Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society<\/em> 80, no. 3 (Autumn 1987): 177-188.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harbour, Jennifer R. Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest<\/em>. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harbour, Jennifer R. \u201c\u2018I Earn By My Own Labor From Day To Day\u2019: African American Women\u2019s Activism in the Wartime Midwest.\u201d<\/a> Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society<\/em> 108, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 347\u2013373.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris, Norman Dwight. The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in that State, 1719-1864. <\/em><\/a>Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison, Victoria L. Fight Like a Tiger: Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America. <\/em>Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison, Victoria L. \u201cWe Are Here Assembled: Illinois Colored Conventions, 1853-1873.\u201d <\/a>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society<\/em> 108, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 322\u2013346. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heerman, M. Scott. The Alechemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones, Martha S. All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900<\/em>. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Junger, \u201c\u2018God and Man Helped Those Who Helped Themselves\u2019: John and Mary Jones and the Culture of African American Self-Sufficiency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chicago.<\/a>\u201d Journal of Illinois History<\/em> 11, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 111-132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junger, Richard. \u201c\u2018Thinking Men and Women, Who Desire to Improve Our Condition\u2019: Henry O. Wagoner, Civil Rights, and Black Economic Opportunity in Frontier Chicago and Denver, 1846-1887.\u201d In Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy<\/em>, edited by William H. Alexander, Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, and Charles H. Ford, 140-169. Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad\u202f: the Geography of Resistance<\/em>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masur, Kate. Until Justice Be Done: America\u2019s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction<\/em>. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCaul, Robert. The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois.<\/em> Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muelder, Hermann R. A Hero Home From the War: Among the Black Citizens of Galesburg, Illinois 1860-1880<\/em>. Galesburg, IL: Knox College Library, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rael, Patrick. Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago\u2019s First Century: Volume 1, 1833-1900<\/em>. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed, Christopher Robert. \u201cThe Early African American Settlement of Chicago, 1833-1870.\u201d<\/a> Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society<\/em> 108, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 211\u2013265.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robertson, Stacey M. Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest. <\/em>Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago History Museum, \u201cConcert is Power: Chicago\u2019s First Free Black Generation, Part 1\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago History Museum, \u201cConcert is Power: Chicago\u2019s First Free Black Generation, Part 2\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridges, Roger D. \u201cAntebellum Struggle for Citizenship.\u201d Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 108, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 296\u2013321. Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. America\u2019s First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Dexter, Darrel. Bondage in Egypt: Slavery in Southern Illlinois. Cape Girardeau, MO: Center for Regional History Southeast Missouri State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6829,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7122","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7122\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/black-illinois-organizing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}