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The Beacon Tree
Relate's author's childhood memory of the Underground Railroad Spring Hill stop in Shelby Township, Macomb County
Slaves in Old Detroit
1782 Census of Detroit shows 179 slaves being held by Detroit families.
Ex-Slave's Dream Builds White Church; Freed Woman Contributed First Thousand Dollars toward Exclusive Detroit Church
Elizabeth Forth Denison, who died at age 114, contributed her savings to the St. James Episcopal Church of Gross Isle.
The Colored People of Detroit-the President's Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation and its reception in Detroit.
Then Freedom Came: Detroit and the Emancipation Proclamation
Describes Detroit reaction to issuance of Proclamation.
The Detroit Reality: a Revolt against Alienation.
Likens the Detroit revolt of July 1967 to the early revolts of slave Negroes and white indentured servants.
The Mackinac Register
"Register [of the parish at Michilimackinac] is the first written record of slaves in Michigan: it shows sixteen slave baptismal entries [and] the marriage sacrament to two slaves."
Political Parties in Michigan, 1837-1860; an Historical Study of Political Issues and Parties in Michigan from the Admission of the State to the Civil War.
Describes several fugitive slave episodes and their political consequences.