Richard Archer is a Professor of History Emeritus at Whittier College. He is the author of two previous books on New England, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century and As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution.

• Part I: Jim Crow in New England


• Chapter 1: The World of Hosea Easton and David Walker


• Chapter 2: New England's Peculiar Institution


• Chapter 3: Emancipation and Free African Americans


• Part II: Girding Up


• Chapter 4: Unity and Uplift


• Chapter 5: Advanced Education


• Chapter 6: Intimidation, Assaults, and Riots


• Part III: Towards Equality


• Chapter 7: Riding the Rails with Jim Crow


• Chapter 8: Forward Steps


• Part IV: Mixed Marriages


• Chapter 9: Repealing the Law


• Chapter 10: Breaking a Barrier


• Part V: Hitting the Wall


• Chapter 11: Fugitives


• Chapter 12: Inching Ahead


• Chapter 13: The Wall


• Part VI: Epilogue


• Chapter 14: Miles to Go


• Acknowledgments

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, African American New Englanders through sit-ins, boycotts, petition drives, and other initiatives struggled for equal rights. Jim Crow North is the tale of that struggle and of the racism that prompted it.