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Send orders to: Helen Hoban Rogers, 132 Lawton Street, San Francisco, CA 94122; e-mail: hobanrogers@mindspring.com.

Over 250 documents (bills of sale, certificates of freedom, certificates of slavery, emancipations, and manumissions) are abstracted from Volume 1 of the District of Columbia land indexes for the years 1792 to and into 1806.

See also the second volume in this series, Freedom and Slavery Documents in the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds Office, Vol. 2, 1806-1816. A third volume, Freedom and Slavery Documents in the District of Columbia, Vol. 3, 1816-1822, has recently been published by Otter Bay Books. Contact the author for information about this volume.