Ohio Black Code

Further Reading

Articles

• Finkelman, Paul. “The Strange Career of Race Discrimination in Antebellum Ohio.” Case Western Reserve Law Review 55, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 1–26.

Books

• Berwanger, Eugene H. Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967.
• Cayton, Andrew R. L., and Stuart D. Hobbs, eds. The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.
• Litwack, Leon F. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790–1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
• Middleton, Stephen. The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.
• Taylor, Nikki M. Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community, 1802–1868. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Web Sites

• “The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850–1920.” American Memory Collection, Library of Congress “American Memory Collection” Web site. http://memory.loc.gov/aaeohome.html.