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An Oration Delivered at a Celebration in Detroit, of the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies, Held by Colored Americans, August 1st, 1839
Oration makes no reference to Detroit.
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."
City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922
Volume 1 of this unindexed work describes sale of slaves (p. 196); legislation on slavery (p. 227-228); colored schools (p. 743). Includes chapter on slavery and the underground railroad (p. 475-484).
The City of Detroit and the Emancipation Proclamation [Prepared for Wayne State University Emancipation Centennial Announcement Luncheon, September 21, 1962]
(Appears also under title, Michigan and the Emancipation Proclamations in Michigan in Books 5:127-136. Winter 1963) (Reprinted as p. 72-94 of Rose, Arnold M. ed. Assuring Freedom to the Free, a Century of Emancipation in the U.S.A. Detroit, Wayne…
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.
Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro
Volume 5: Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and West of Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica. pg. 80-88: Michigan. Quotes descriptions of cases from court reports.
Then Freedom Came: Detroit and the Emancipation Proclamation
Describes Detroit reaction to issuance of Proclamation.
Reminiscences
p. 366-373. The Michigan Raid. Describes the episode usually referred to as "Kentucky Raid."
A Quaker Pioneer: Laura Haviland, Superintendent of the Underground
Biography of the founder of the Raisin Institute near Adrian and "Superintendent" of the Underground Railroad in Michigan, describes many slave escapes.
History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan, a Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present. 3rd ed. Rev. and enl.
p. 344-348. Slavery and the Colored Race. P.750-751. Colored Schools.