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Blacks in Delaware Catholic Records
Chippey: African Union Methodist Church
Delaware African American Genealogy
Digital Library on American Slavery (Includes the names of 80,000 individual slaves, often with additional identifying information.)
Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware
Growth of Delaware's Antebellum Free African American Community
History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore
Mount Olive Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware
St. John: African Methodist CHURCH

Bibliography

General:
Essah, Patience. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1996. 216p. Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. Index. Notes. /GC 975.1 Es73h/

Essah, Patience. Slavery and Freedom in the First State: The History of Blacks in Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1865. Los Angeles, CA: P. Essah, 1985. 240p. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Tables. /GC 975.1 Es73sl/

Hait, Michael. Records of the Slave Claims Commission, 1864-1867, Volume One: Register of Claims of Delaware Commission. Hait Family History Research Services, 2010. 32p. Index. /GC 973.068 H127RE, v. 1

Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2000. 392p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 975.2 H36fr/

List of Selected African Americans from the 1890 and 1900 Federal Population Censuses of Delaware and Related Census Publications, "Agriculture in the State of Delaware (1901)" and "Negroes in the United States (1904)." Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2004. 1 roll. /Microfilm/

Marks, Carole C., ed. A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Heritage Commission, 1996. 256p. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 975.1 H629/

Minority Military Service, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, 1775-1783. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1998. 38p. Notes. /GC 973.34 Aa1mina/

National Archives and Records Administration. Records of the Field Offices for the States of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872: Pamphlet Describing M1906. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2003. 21p. Appendix. Notes. /GC 975 R245N/

Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. List of Selected African Americans from the 1890 and 1900 Federal Population Censuses of Delaware and Related Census Publications, "Agriculture in the State of Delaware (1901)" and "Negroes in the United States (1904)." Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2004. 9p. A guide to microfilm publication M1919. /GC 975.1 Un3p/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867: Part B, Maryland (1775-1866), Delaware (1779-1857), District of Columbia (1803-1865). Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 200-. /Microfilm Rolls 12-13/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867: Part B, Maryland (1775-1866), Delaware (1779-1857), District of Columbia (1803-1865). Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2003. 409p. Index. /GC 975 G941a/

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Series I, Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1999. Delaware Petitions. /Microfilm Rolls 1-2/

Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. 166p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sw67un/

Williams, William H. Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996. 270p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 975.1 W67s/

New Castle County:
James, Victoria. Dunleith. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. 128p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 975.102 D92j/

Nutter, Jeanne D. Growing Up Black in New Castle County. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Voices of America Series. /GC 975.101 N43nu/

Sussex County:
Weslager, C.A. The Siconese Indians of Lewes, Delaware: A Historical Account of a "Great" Bayside Lenape Tribe. Lewes, DE: Lewes Historical Society, 1991. 32p. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 975.102 L58WE/

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