Connecting New Yorkers to the benefits of our harbor. A living lab for better urban waterways.
Tulsa Girl
Anthanio-Williams, Shameen
2016
Yearning to Breathe Free
Billingsley, Andrew
2007
Black Jacks
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
1997
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and community in the Southwest Borderlands
Brooks, James F.
2002
Black life on The Mississippi
Buchanan, Thomas C.
2004
Which Way to Freedom?: And Other Questions About the Underground Railroad
Carson, Mary Kay
2015
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
Cline-Ransome, Lesa & Ransome, James E.
2012
From Slave to Civil War Hero; the Life and Times of Robert Smalls
Cooper, Michael L.
1994
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Deetz, Kelley Fanto
2017
American Negro Folktales
Dorson, Richard M.
2015, 1967
Vigilance
Diemer, Andrew K.
2022
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass, Frederick
1995 (reprint)
Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad
Edinger, Monica and Byrd, Robert
2013
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Equiano, Olaudah
2003
How the North Promoted, Prolonged and profited from Slavery Complicity
Farrow, Anne and Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank
2006
Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy
Finley, Skip
2020
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans 3rd Ed.
Franklin, John Hope
1967
Troubled Water
Freeman, Gregory A.
2009
The Men All Singing: The Story of the Menhaden Fishing
Frye, John1978
Dairy of a Contraband The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
Gould, William B. IV
Action: Submit testimony by March 31 to the CEQR (study of environmental impacts) of the EDC’s proposed Brooklyn Marine Terminal “Vision Plan.” Template is here.
Email testimony to espokowski@moec.nyc.gov and HSemel@cityhall.nyc.gov and PortSide at chiclet@portsidenewyork.org.
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and community in the Southwest Borderlands
Brooks, James F.
2002