Over 420 African Americans who were born free during the colonial period served in the American Revolution from Virginia. Another 400 who descended from free-bo
Presents genealogy information about the free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware, compiled by Paul Heinegg. I
In this second edition, Mr. Heinegg has assembled genealogical evidence on 390 Maryland and Delaware Black families (90 more than in the first edition) with cop
The Sixth Edition is Mr. Heinegg's most ambitious effort yet to reconstruct the history of the free African American communities of Virginia and the Carolinas b