The following sources were consulted in the development of this exhibit. Please click on the links to visit online sources.

• "African Meeting House" - Boston African American National Historic Site
• Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA, 2015, "Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.212-Revolution Resolves, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Lancaster Hill", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EFLK8, Harvard Dataverse, V4
• King's Chapel Register of Baptisms (This volume is not yet digitized. Click here to contact King's Chapel about these records)
• King's Chapel Register of Marriages (This volume is not yet digitized. Click here to contact King's Chapel about these records)
• King's Chapel Register of Burials (This volume is not yet digitized. Click here to contact King's Chapel about these records)
• "Darby Vassall" - Mount Vernon
• "Laws of the African Society" - Massachusetts Historical Society
• "Though Dwelling in a Land of Freedom" - Longfellow House & Washington's Headquarters - National Park Service
• Slavery and King's Chapel - Online Content
• “So Succeeded by a Kind Providence”: Communities of Color in Eighteenth Century Boston" by Eric Hanson Plass
• Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)​

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