Description: A difficult-to-find major genealogical tool in the study of African-American family history has now been made available again to researchers and historians with the publication by Doubting Thoms Books of "Black and Free: The Free Negro in American, 1830". The just-published book provides a useful commentary on Carter G. Woodson's "Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830" through a new 40-page updated introduction written especially for this book. The book reprints the 296-page Index to Names found in the original and long out-of-print edition of Woodson's book which was laboriously compiled from 1830 U.S. census records. That book, published almost a century ago and in a small quantity, appears irregularly in the out-of-print book market at prices often approaching $1.000 a copy. This attractive dust-jacketed edition, priced at $29.95, makes the book affordable by schools, libraries and individuals alike. The 50,000 entries are listed by state and county of residence and provide not only the name of the respondent but their approximate age and the number of members of their family. The listing provides the most detailed and comprehensive compilation available of Free Negroes living in the United States before the Civil War. "Black and Free" is the first in a series of long-neglected and useful genealogical works to be published by Doubting Thomas Books.

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