Heinegg compiles individual family histories into an account of the communities as a whole in the two states. He points out that most free African Americans wer

Presents genealogy information about the free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware, compiled by Paul Heinegg. I

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