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in Albany: Uncle Sammy' Anderson: The last Flatbush slave John J Ridge Tales of Old Flabtush 176-77 NY: n.p. 1943 Unpublished paper: Fabend, Firth.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 regards m ================================================================= Jazz is freedom. -- T. Monk http://www.panix.com/~cassidy