Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810

Paul Heinegg, who previously won the prestigious Donald Lines Jacobus prize for genealogical scholarship for his work on the free black population of Virginia and North Carolina, now brings us the companion volume: Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810. As he did for free blacks in North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Heinegg has reconstructed the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the history of their f…