Breaking Chains Named No. 6 on Top Ten List

Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory by OWC member R. Gregory Nokes, was named No. 6 on the Top Ten Books of the Pacific Northwest by The Oregonian. An up-to-date list of Nokes’s appearances in 2014 can be found on his book website.

New Book from Gregory Nokes

In Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory, R. Gregory Nokes presents a nonfiction account of the largely forgotten story of Oregon slavery, focusing on the only slavery case adjudicated in Oregon’s pre-Civil War courts. The book, published by Oregon...