African Americans on Martha's Vineyard: From Enslavement to Presidential Visit (American Heritage)

African Americans of Martha's Vineyard have an epic history. From the days when slaves toiled away in the fresh New England air, through abolition and Reconstruction and continuing into recent years, African Americans have fought arduously to preserve a vibrant culture here. Discover how the Vineyard became a sanctuary for slaves during the Civil War and how many blacks first came to the island as indentured servants. Read tales of the Shearer Cottage, a popular vacation destination for prominent blacks from Harry T. Burleigh to Scott Joplin, and how Martin Luther King Jr. vacationed here as well. Venture through the Vineyard with local tour guide Thomas Dresser and learn about people such as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and President Barack Obama, who return to the Vineyard for respite from a demanding world.

• Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island
• African Americans on Martha's Vineyard (Martha's Vineyard Museum)
• The Vineyard We Knew: A Recollection of Summers on Martha's Vineyard
• The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
• The Wedding: A Novel
• Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard
• Oak Bluffs: The Cottage City Years On Martha's Vineyard (MA) (Images of America)
• Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
• The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"