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Information about Slavery in Mamaroneck Township

Publications Local slavery records are from Mary O’Connor English: Early Town Records of Mamaroneck, 1697-1881. (Town of Mamaroneck, 1979) The story of Ginny and Banjo Billy – the Mott’s slaves – is further explained in Thomas C. Cornell: Adam and Anne Mott, Their Ancestors and Their Descendants. (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1890) Larchmont Gazette: Slavery in Mamaroneck Township Larchmont Gazette: LHS Finds More Slaves in Heathcote Hill Larchmont Gazette: Two “Local” Slaves Recaptured After 220 Years Slavery in Westchester and New York Establishing Slavery in Colonial New York Edward McManus: A History of Negro Slavery in New York. (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1966.) Slavery in the North NY Historical Society: Slavery in New York 1620-1827 New York Historical Society: Slavery and the Civil War Essays Small Family Memories. Black Loyalists in Canada Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia Census Records Census of Mamaroneck, 1698 Slavery in America Library of Congress American Memory project: Slavery – The Peculiar Institution PBS: Slavery and the Making of America Library of Congress: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project UVA: Visual Images of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas Stanford University Library: Bibliography on Slavery

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