Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830

Download or read book Free Black Heads of Households in the New York State Federal Census, 1790-1830 written by Alice Eichholz and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally in 1981, the work at hand is an alphabetical listing of all free African-American heads of household listed in the five U.S. censuses for the State of New York taken between 1790 and 1830. Since it was during this 40-year period that the New York legislature passed a series of statutes resulting in the gradual emancipation of the state's slave population, the scope of this work documents the emergence of a completely free black population by 1830. In all, there are 15,000 references to freedmen, many of whom appear in more than one census.