Scots in the American West, 1783-1883Thework at hand is an alphabetical listing of all free African American heads of household listed in the five U. S. censuses for the State of New York taken between 1790 and 1830. Since it was during this 40 year period that the New York legislature passed a series of statutes resulting in the gradual emancipation of the state's slave population, the scope of this work documents the emergence of a completely free black population by 1830. In all,