Slavery Documentation

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)

Slavery in Mamaroneck Articles First Published in the Following:

• Ned Benton. “Slavery in Mamaroneck Township: Remembering Bet, Phelby, Candice, Jack, Hannibal, Telemaque…” Larchmont Gazette, January 13, 2005
• Ned Benton. “Two ‘Local’ Slaves Recaptured After 220 Years.” Larchmont Gazette. December, 12 2006
• Ned Benton. “Historical Society Finds More Slaves From Heathcote Hill.” Larchmont Gazette. January 18, 2008
• Ned Benton. “Joseph Stewart – ‘The Governor” Who Was a Slave’.” Larchmont Historical Society. January, 2011
• Ned Benton. “Mamaroneck Slaves Found in Canada’.”  Larchmont Historical Society. January, 2011

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

Town Of Mamaroneck Records

• Birth Records of Children Born to Enslaved Women

Slavery in America