I stumbled on some books & articles that may help you though none deal
directly on slaves in Albany:
Uncle Sammy' Anderson: The last Flatbush slave
John J Ridge
Tales of Old Flabtush 176-77 NY: n.p. 1943
Unpublished paper:
Fabend, Firth. "Black Roots on Brooklyn Farms, 1790-1840." April 1998
US Government Documents
Department of Agriculture
Divisions of Statistics. Wages of Farm Labor in the United States: Results
of Nine Statistical investigations, from 1840 to 1892, with Extensive
Inqueries Concerning Wages from 1840 to 1865. Ser. Rep. 4 1892
Income Tax:
Letter from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 41 st Congress ed sess.
1871 House Misc. Doc 51
IRS. Income Taxes 1862-1962: History of the Internal Revenue Service, Pub
447, 1962
Report of the Special Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 41 st Congress 2d
sess. 1869 House Misc. Doc 27
Books & Articles
The Rise of the Port of NY: 1815-1860
Robert Albion
NY Scibners
1939
An Historical Sketch of Brooklyn
JT Bailey
Author 1849
The History of Wallabout Market Established in 1884: The Largest Market in
the World
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle 1902
Tales of Old Flatbush, 189-95 n.p.1945
"Conditions of the Free Colored People of the United States."
Christian Examiner
March 1859, 246-65
James Freeman Clarke
Reprinted in the Free People of Color NY Arno 1969
A Ghetto Grows in Brooklyn, NY
New York UP 1977
Which came first: The Transit Line or the Neighborhood?
The relationship Between Transportation and Neighborhood Settlement in
Brooklyn."
LIHJ 5 (10"91-100 1992
Long Island Historical Journal
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Proces: The Colonial
Period.
NY: Oxford, 1978
North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860
Leon Litwack
Chicago
U of Chicago p, 1967 {1961)
Black Bondage in the North, Syracuse, Syracuse UP 1973
A History of Negro Slavery in New York, Syacuse, Syracuse UP 1970 (1966)
Edgar McManus
Slavery on Long Island: A Study of Local Institutional and Early
African-American Communal Life, NY: Garland, 1993
Riches, Class, and Power Before the Cival War
Lexington, Mass
Heath 1973
Edward Pessen
The City of Brooklyn, 1865-1898: A Political History
NY
Columbia UP
1944
Harold Syrett
The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North.
Arthur Zilversmit
Chicago
U of Chicago P 1967
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