Additional Resources

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Martha Cooper

• The Last Frontier in Slavery: Black Slavery in the Platte Purchase Counties of Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway, and Platte in Missouri by Patrese Owens Stockton

• Race and Meaning: the African American Experience in Missouri by Gary R. Kremer

• Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras by Kristen Epps

• Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery by Diane Mutti Burke

• Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 by Lowell J. Soike

• The History of Nodaway County, Missouri: Containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens by the National Historical Company, St. Joseph, Missouri

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