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

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 15000 references to freedmen many of whom appear in more than one census.