Aiken, Nancy E. and Michel S. Perdreau. "The Situation of African-Americans in Ohio 1839-1863: Abstracts from Newspapers and Meeting Minutes with Special Emphasis on Education." Ohio Genealogical Society Report 35:3 (Fall 1995). Call # F486.R45 (2nd floor open shelf).
Buchanan, James. The Blacks of Pickaway County, Ohio in the Nineteenth Century. Bowie, Md: Heritage, 1988. Call # F97.P5B52.
Clay, Sheila Farmer. Black Legacy: African-Americans of Champaign County, Ohio. Trotwood, OH: S.J.F. Clay, 1996. Call # Folio F497.C4 C53 1996.
-----. A Brief History of St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio. Clay, 1987. Call # BX8445.V7C5 1987.
-----. “Certificates of Freedom – Ross County and Champaign County, Ohio.” JAAHGS 8:4 (Winter 1987). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
-----. Early Death Record (Blacks Only) Volumes 1 & 2. Champaign County, Ohio 1867-1909. Dayton, Ohio: Clay, (1987?). Call # fF497.C4C5.
-----. Burial Records: G.F. Allen & Company: 15 Jan. 1933 –30 Oct. 1967 Urbana, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio: Clay, 1983. Call # F499.U7C5. Records of a Champaign County black mortician contain much important genealogical information.
-----. The Stillgess-Chavers Family Genealogy. Dayton, Ohio: Author, 1994. Call # foCS71.S8566 1994. Other families, most with Champaign County connections, are Farmer, Roberts, Duncan.Dabney, Wendell Phillips. Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens: Historical, Sociological and Biographical. Cincinnati: Ohio Book Store, c1926 (1988 reprint). Call # F499.C5D33 1988.
Dennis, James L. Washington’s Darker Brother: One Hundred Years of Black History in Washington County, Ohio 1788-1888. Dennis,1986. Call # LFH Vertical File for Washington County, Ohio.
Houseman, Michael L. “Belmont County, Ohio, Census of Blacks, 1863.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 69:3 (September 1981). Call # CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Jones, David T. Pioneer Blacks in Adams County, Ohio. Wabash, Indiana: Decamp, 1963. Call # fF892015.55.
Lucas, Ernestine Grant. From Paris to Springfield: The Slave Connection Basye-Basey. Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen [printer], 1983. Call # fCS1.B363. Traces the Baseys of Springfield, Ohio back to Missouri and Kentucky.
Nitchman, Paul E. Blacks in Ohio, 1880. Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen [printer], 19850. Call # E185.93.02N57. Ongoing series of census transcriptions. Volume 1: Adams-Carroll Counties. Volume 2: Champaign-Clinton Counties. Volume 3: Columbiana-Fayette Counties. Volume 4: Franklin-Geauga Counties. Volume 5: City of Cincinnati. Volume 6: Green-Henry Counties. Volume 7: Highland-Lorain Counties.
Ohio Historical Society/ Library of Congress. The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920. (website). Digitized documents fom the Ohio Historical Society.
Ohio Historical Society. Blacks Immigrating to Ohio 1861-1863. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society, 1988. Call # Microfilm 906.
Overton, Julie M. “Blacks in the 1850 Federal Census of Greene County, Ohio.” JAAHGS 3:4 (Winter 1982). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Sacks, Howard L. Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem. Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1993. Call # ML3556.S2 1993. Snowden family.Snider, Wayne L. Guernsey County’s Black Pioneers, Patriots and Persons. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society, 1979. Call # F497.G9S66.
Turpin, Joan. Register of Black, Mulatto and Poor Persons in four Ohio Counties 1791-1861. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1985. Call # foF490.T87 1985. The counties in question are Clinton, Highland, Logan, and Ross. The records were generates by an Ohio law requiring all black or mulatto persons to appear before the clerk of the county common pleas court to prove free status with appropriate documentation.
Weisman, Kay. “1863 Special Enumeration of Blacks in Ohio: Abstract of the Meigs County Census.” JAAHGS 2:3 (Fall 1981). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Williams, Jacob C. Lillie: Black Life in Martins Ferry, Ohio during the 1920s and 1930s. Ann Arbor, Michigan: [s.n.], c1991. Call # F499.M33W558 1991.Woodson, Minnie Shumate. “Black and Mulatto Persons in Jackson County, Ohio.” JAAHGS 5:1 (Spring 1984). Call # Cs1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf). Covers years 1818-1854.
Wright State University. Records of Black and Mulatto Persons…. Call # Microfilm 392. Microfilm of original records of the type referred to above in Turpin. Counties included are Greene, Logan, Miami and Montgomery. A printed abstract entitled Register of Blacks in the Miami Valley: A Name Abstract (1804-1857) compiled by Stephen Haller and Robert Smith is also available (call # fF497.M63H34).