Selected Bibliography
Andrews, Gregory E. and Ransom, David, Structures and Styles, Guided Tours of Hartford Architecture. Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut Architecture Foundation, 1988.
Cummings Frank C. The First Episcopal District's Historical Review of 200 Years of African Methodism. Philadelphia, The First Episcopal District, 1987..
Faude, Wilson, The Great Hartford Picture Book. Norfolk, Virginia: The Donning Co. Pub., 1985.
Franklin, John Hope and Moss, Alfred Jr., From Slavery To Freedom A History of African Americans, Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000, Eighth Edition.
Greene, Lorenzo. The Negro In Colonial New England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942.
Johnson, Charles S. The Negro Population of Hartford Connecticut. New York: The National Urban League, 1921.
Kummer, Merle, Zimmerman, Sarah, and Pawlowski. Hartford Architecture Volume Three: North and West Neighborhoods. Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Conservancy Survey, 1980.
Lewis, David L. King A Biography, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1970.
Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005
Pennington, James W. C. A. Textbook of thr Origin and History of the Colored People. Hartford, Connecticut: L. Skinner, 1841.
Perry, Carrie Saxon. The Mayor's Report to the Citizens of Hartford, Connecticut: Mayor's Office, 1991.
Platt, Frederick, America’s Gilded Age Its Architecture and Decoration. South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1976.
Primus Rebecca. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland and Adie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut. New York: Knoph: Distributed by Random House, 1999.
Articles
Beeching, Barbara, “Reading the Numbers: Census Returns as Key to the Nineteenth Century Black Community in Hartford, Connecticut,” Connecticut History, volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2005,. 224-247.
Jones, Mark H. “To Tell Our Story, Mary Townsend Seymour and the Early Years of Hartford’s Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1917-1920,” Connecticut History, volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2005, 205-223.