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- ↑ Walker, Juliet, 1983, Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier.University Press of Kentucky, Lexington
- ↑ Shackel, Paul A. 2010 Remembering New Philadelphia. In New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier, edited by Christopher Fennel and Terrance Martin, and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology, 44(1),
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