District of Columbia free Negro registers, 1821-1861
By: [compiled and edited by] Dorothy S. Provine.
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Bowie, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 728
Subjects: Free African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Registers.; Washington (D.C.) -- Genealogy.; Washington (D.C.) -- Registers.
Other titles: Manumission and emancipation record, 1821-1861.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 619-621) and index.
"This book contains abstracts of official registrations of free status by non-slave African American residents of antebellum Washington, DC; the original documents ... are entitled 'Manumission and emancipation record, 1821-1861' ... four of the five original volumes have survived; the one for 1846-1855 is missing"--Vol. 2, p. [4] of cover.
This is a two-part book: Vol. [1] contains the original v. 1 (1821-1828; Registration Nos. 1-628) and original v. 2 (1828-1837; Registration Nos. 629-1488) -- Vol. 2 contains original v. 3 (1837-1846; Registration Nos. 1489-2368) and original v. 5 (1855-1861; Registration Nos. 2369-2871). Original v. 4 (1846-1855) is missing.