Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware : from the colonial period to 1810
(2000)
By:
Heinegg, Paul
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/REFERENCE/929.375/HEINEGG,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company, [2000]
©2000
©2000
DESCRIPTION
392 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780806350424, 0806350423
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The author has assembled genealogical evidence on more than 300 Maryland and Delaware black families (naming nearly 6,000 individuals), with documentation from the federal censuses of 1790-1810 and colonial sources consulted at the Maryland Hall of Records, county archives, and other repositories. The author offers documentation proving that most of these free black families descended from mixed-race children who were the progeny of white women and African American men. While some of these families would claim Native American ancestry, Mr. Heinegg offers evidence to show that they were instead the direct descendants of mixed-race children