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Books
From Here to Equality, William Darity and Kirsten Mullen.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain.
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward Baptist.
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ana Araujo.
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert.
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, Caleb McDaniel.
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War, Jonathan Wells.
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, Andres Resendez.
Dear White Christians, Jennifer Harvey.
Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson.
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harris.
The City-State of Boston, Mark Peterson.
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, David Eltis and David Richardson.
Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston, Jared Ross Hardesty.
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren.
Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm, Alexandra Chan.
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, C. S. Manegold.
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith.
How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi.
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Articles
General:
“The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates.
“What is Owed,” Nikole Hannah-Jones.
“What Reparations Means to One American Family,” Tracey Jan.
“Harvard is studying its ties to slavery - but is that enough?” Deirdre Fernandes.
“Preliminary Reparations Program,” National African American Reparations Commission.
In the Church:
“A Christian Call for Reparations,” Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas.
Reparations and Reconciliation, Trinity Wall Street.
Report on Reparations and Beloved Community from the House of Bishops.
Report on White Supremacy from the House of Bishops.
Resources from the Unitarian Universalist Assocation.
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Multimedia
Videos and Webinars:
Boston Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony, August 2021.
“Journeying Towards Reparations,” Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
“Recovering Our History and Moving Towards Reparations,” Reparations Community of Practice.
Repairing the Breach: The Episcopal Church and Slavery Atonement.
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Starting Your Research
Reparations Toolkits:
Reparations Now Toolkit, The Movement for Black Lives.
Reparations Liturgical Toolkit, The Episcopal Diocese of New York.
“Telling the Truth about our churches and race,” The Episcopal Church.
Archives and Research Tips:
Boston Public Library’s Anti-Slavery Manuscripts.
Maryland Episcopalian Archives.
Making Amends By Reversing Erasure: Recovering Enslaved People, Emily Ross (Archivist, Old South Church).
Images:
Darity, William A., Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469654973/from-here-to-equality (accessed September 10, 2021).
Nelson, Robert K., LaDale Winling, Richard Marciano, Nathan Connolly, et al., “Mapping Inequality,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers, https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/41.956/-87.808&city=chicago-il (accessed September 10, 2021).
Sutton, Belinda P. Petition to the Massachusetts General Court, February 14, 1783. Original manuscript. From the Massachusetts Archives. https://royallhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Belindas_Petition.pdf (accessed September 10, 2021).
"Shall freedom or slavery triumph." Ephemera. Boston: s.n., 1800. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/70796c952 (accessed September 30, 2021).