Where History Continues to be Written

Bibliography of African-American Resources

Available at the Huguenot Historical Society Library, New Paltz, New York 2001

Anjou, Gustave. Ulster County, NY Wills. New York, NY: Gustave Anjou, 1906.

Bogart, John A. "Slavery was Common in New Netherland." New York, NY: Holland Society of New York, 1949. de Halve Maen 24:1, pp 6 - 7

Carlo, Paula. The Huguenots of Colonial New Paltz and New Rochelle: A social and religious history. Ph.D. Dissertation, The City University of New York, 2001.

Census of Slaves in Ulster County, 1755.

Clearwater, Olive M. Hurley in the Days of Slavery. Hurley, NY: Hurley Heritage Society, 1986.

Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

"First Blacks in America Not Slaves." New York, NY: Holland Society of New York, 1970. de Halve Maen 45:1, pp 17.

Gammell, Pamela. East Tennessee Roots: Vol. V:4. Oak Ridge, TN: Tennessee Valley Publications, 1998.

Goochland County Historical Society Magazine. Goochland County, VA: Goochland County Historical Society.

Greely, Horace. This American Conflict. Hartford, CT: O.D. Case Company, 1865.

Greene, Robert Ewell. Black Courage: Documentation of Black Participation on the American Revolution. Washington, DC: National Society of the DAR, 1984.

Heidgerd, William. Black History of New Paltz. New Paltz, NY: Haviland Heidgerd Historical
Collection, 1986.

Johnson, Pedro M. The Underground Railroad in New York. New Paltz, NY: History Department, etc.
at SUNY New Paltz, 1998.

Kobrin, David. The Black Minority in Ealry New York. Albany, NY: University of the State of New
York, 1971.

Krass, Peter. Sojourner Truth: Antislavery Activist. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.

Kruger, Vivienne L. Born to Run: The slave family in early New York, 1626-1827, 2 vols. New York: PH.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1985. Published by UMI Dissertation Services. 326.9 KRU

LeFevre, Ralph. History of New Paltz, New York and its Old Families. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973.

Loudon, Jonkheer J. Address by Jonkheer J. Loudon. New York, NY: Holland Society of New York, 1913. Yearbook of the Holland Society p. 247-249

Mabee, Carleton. Sojourner Truth, Bold Prophet: Why Did she Never Learn to Read? : New York History, 1988.

New York Folkore Quarterly. Cooperstown, NY: New York Folklore Society, 1945 - 1970. 1955 and 1956.

New York History: Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 1932 -1994. Albany, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1932 - 1994. 1969.

The New York Historical Society Quarterly. New York, NY: New York Historical Society, 1966 - 1980. 

O'Callaghan, E.B. The Documentary History of the State of New York: Vol. III. Albany, NY: Weeds,
Parsons & Co., 1850.

O'Callaghan, E. B. Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979.

Pauli, Hertha. Her Name was Sojourner Truth. New York, NY: Appleton - Century Crofts, Inc., 1962.

Scott, Kenneth. Ulster County, NY: Court Records 1693 - 1775. Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 1980.

Sinclair, Peter. Chimneys, Stoves, and Slaves. West Hurley, NY: Spillway Farm Press, 1998.

Stanforth, Joel. After Slavery: African Americans in New Paltz, 1850 - 1870. unpublished, 1998.

Swan, Robert J. "The Black Presence in Seventeenth - Century Brooklyn." New York, NY: Holland Society of New York, 1990. de Halve Maen 63:4, pp. 1-6

Versteeg, Dingman.  Kingston Papers, 2 volumes. New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976.

Williams-Meyers, A.J. Long Hammering: Essays on the forging of an African American presence in the Hudson River Valley to the early twentieth century. Trenton, N.J. Africa World Press, Inc., 1994.

Yearbook of the Dutchess County Historical Society. Poughkeepsie, NY: Dutchess County Historical Society, 1914 - 1990.