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Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
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...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Although several entrepreneurs established newspapers for Baltimore's large anti-bellum free African American community ... no issues have survived. ... Founded in 1837, the Baltimore Sun published numerous articles characterizing local, national and international events relating to and impacting people of color. Beginning with the Reconstruction year of 1870, Mrs. Pagan has performed the yeoman's task of scouring the newspaper for all such accounts...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Third Edition of Paul Heinegg's Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia was awarded the American Society of Genealogists' prestigious Donald Lines Jacobus Award for the best work of genealogical scholarship published between 1991 and 1994. The new Sixth Edition is Heinegg's most ambitious effort yet to reconstruct the history of the free African American communities of Virginia and the Carolinas by looking at the history of their...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists looking for the family tree in Alabama sooner or later come across Frazine.
And now they have her book, Researching African American Genealogy in
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