Resources & Links
Resources & Links
In the process of researching and compiling these documents we have found
many useful resources that may be helpful to anyone interested in this topic.
This list will be updated from time to time.
Online Links:
An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves (1782)
Missing Documents and Burned Courthouses in Virginia
Library of Virginia - Virginia Untold - Searchable archives
Germantown Friends' protest against slavery 1688
Pre-1820 Virginia Manumissions Database
The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Pleasants against Pleasants (1798)
Albemarle County Free People of Color: 18th Century Residents
The Reginald D. Butler Local History Archive
Manumission in Frederick Co, Maryland
The Horrible Fate of John Casor
Articles:
Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Manumission in Certain Virginia Cities
Slave manumission in Virginia, 1782-1806: the Jeffersonian dilemma in the age of liberty
Native/African American Freedom Suits in Virginia 1773-1853
Free Black Residency in Two Antebellum Virginia Counties: How the Laws Functioned
The Virginia Free Negro Farmer and Property Owner, 1830-1860
Freedmen and enslaved soil: A case study of manumission, migration, and land (Samuel Gist)
ANTI-SLAVERY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Rev. Edward Dromgoole, Sr., Emancipator and Enslaver
Creating Identity: Free Blacks and the Law
Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America
Free Black Populations of the Southern Appalachian Mountains: 1860
Toward Freedom For All: North Carolina Quaker Legal Theory on the Trust for Manumissions
Book List:
The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865 - John H. Russell -1969
American Slavery 1619-1877 - Peter Kolchin - 1993
The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States - Ira Berlin - 2015
Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World - Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks - 2010
Race and Liberty in the New World - Eva Sheppard Wolf - 2006
Israel on the Appomattox: a Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from
the 1790s through the Civil War - Melvin Patrick Ely - 2005
The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding
Father Who Freed His Slaves - Andrew Levy - 2005
The Problem of Slavery In Western Culture - David Brion Davis - 1969
Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell - 2005
Slave No More : Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas - Aline Helg - 2019
Free Blacks of Lynchburg Virginia 1805-1865 - Ted Delaney & Phillip Rhodes - 2001
Strangers in Their Midst: The Free Black Population of Amherst County, Virginia - Sherry McLeRoy & William McLeRoy - 1993
The Midas of Manumission: The Orphan Samuel Gist and his Virginian Slaves - Barb Drummond - 2018
Free Negroes in Halifax County, Virginia, 1767-1864 - Lander G. Anderson (2018)
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, register of free Negroes and related documentation - Alva H. Griffith (2001)
Bedford Black History 250 Years - Annie S. Pollard (2015)
A History Of The American Nation - Willis Mason West (1929)
Newspaper Articles: