Lucy Delaney
- Born
- 1830 · St. Louis.
- Died
- 1890 · Hannibal.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- writer · slave
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- 1.The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Yours truly Lucy A. Delaney, 1870 - 1890. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
- 2.Berry, Daina Ramey. Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. 56–58. 2012. 978-0313349089.
- 3.Garfield, Deborah. Lucy A. Delaney. Oxford Reference.
- 4.Twitty, Anne. Before Dred Scott. Cambridge University Press. 211, 214. October 31, 2016. 978-1107112063.
- 5.Sinha, Manisha. Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History. Columbia University Press. 87–88. 2007. 978-0231141109.
- 6.National Archives and Records Administration. Lucy A. Delaney (wife of Zachariah Delaney), Morgan Street, St. Louis. 1880 United States Federal Census.
- 7.Polly Wash, a woman of color v. Joseph M. Magehen. St. Louis Legal Encoding Project, Washington University in St. Louis.
- 8.Frances Wash died. Missouri Intelligencer and Boon's Lick Advertiser. 2. February 6, 1829.
- 9.Mary Ann Berry married Henry S. Coxe. St. Louis Marriage Index, 1804–1876.
- 10.Corbett, Katherine T. In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History. Missouri History Museum. 56–57. 1999. 978-1883982300.
- 11.Lucy Delaney. Gateway Arch National Park, U.S. National Park Service.
- 12.Simon, Stephanie. The Nation; Column One; Cries for Freedom Still Ring; in Long-Ago Lawsuits Uncovered in St. Louis, Slaves Tell of their Suffering. Dozens Won Release from Bondage before all-White Juries. Los Angeles Times. March 18, 2003.
- 13.Gardner, Eric. 'You have no business to whip me': the freedom suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delaney. African American Review. 41. 1. Spring 2007.
- 14.Lucy Ann Britton v. David D. Mitchell. University Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis.
- 15.Fearful Explosion and Loss of Life – about 20 Lives Lost and 40 Persons Scalded. Democratic Banner. 2. August 14, 1848.
- 16.Zachary Delaney married Lucy Ann Turner. St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., Marriage Index, 1804–1876, volume 07, page 37.
- 17.Romeo, Sharon. Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri. University of Georgia Press. 17–18. 2016. 978-0820348018.
- 18.U.S. Government Printing Office. Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates. 16780. 1965.
- 19.Wright, John Aaron. Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites. Missouri History Museum. 25–26. 2002. 978-1883982454.
- 20.Early, Gerald Lyn. Ain't But a Place: An Anthology of African American Writings about St. Louis. Missouri History Museum. 34. 1998. 978-1883982287.
- 21.National Archives and Records Administration. Lucy Delaney, St. Louis, Missouri. 1870 Federal Census.
- 22.Smith, Jessie Carney. Notable Black American Women. Gale Research. 263. 1992. 978-0810347496.
- 23.Gardner, Eric. 'Face to Face': Localizing Lucy Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light. Legacy. 24. 1. 50–71. 2007. 1534-0643.
- 24.Delaney – Entered into rest. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 7. September 4, 1910.
- 25.Freemason Home purchased for members, wives, or orphans. St. Louis Palladium. 4. March 9, 1907.
- 26.Notable Burials. Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association.
- 27.Williams, Joe. History in the Re-Making: The Missouri Historical Society tells stories of early African-American Heroes. St.Louis Post – Dispatch. 46-GO, 46:1. January 16, 1997.
- 28.O'Neil, Tim. Look Back 250 – Slavery was a Fact of Life in St. Louis from the Beginning. McClatchy – Tribune Business News. May 17, 2014.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Delaney, Lucy A. From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom. J. T. Smith. 1891.
- Gardner, Eric. Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. University Press of Mississippi. 2010. 978-1604732849.
- Katz, William Loren. Black pioneers : an untold story. Atheneum Books. 1999. 978-0689814105.
- Roberts, Anna K. Crossing Jordon: The Mississippi River in the Black Experience in Greater St. Louis, 1815–1860. Missouri Historical Review. The State Historical Society of Missouri. 113. 1. October 2018.
- Van Ravenswaay, Charles. St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764–1865. Missouri History Museum. 1991. 978-0252019159.
- VanderVelde, Lea. Redemption songs : suing for freedom before Dred Scott. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. 146. 2014. 978-0199927296.
- Wong, Edlie L. Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel. New York University Press. 2009. 978-0814794654.
- Ann Allen Shockley, Afro-American Women Writers 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide, New Haven, Connecticut: Meridian Books, 1989.
- Jeannine Delombard, Slavery On Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
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