Gwynn's Island Project

Free People

Free People of Color in Mathews County



Although limited in number, there were free African Americans in southern slave states.

Click on the link to access the landmark work of Paul Heinegg in documenting families from the Colonial period until 1820.

The attached file, sourced from personal property tax lists (1791-1815), is specific to Mathews County, VA.


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