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Sources consulted for the biography of:George Teamoh (1818–after 1887)
Primary Sources
- George Teamoh, God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh, ed. F. N. Boney, Richard L. Hume, and Rafia Zafar (1990), with year of birth on p. 63, year of first marriage on p. 87, and first quotation on p. 115
- Second marriage in Marriage Register, City of Boston, 1863, Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1867 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 427, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, Library of Virginia
- Teamoh to "Dear Sir," December 17, 1867, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Miscellaneous File, 1867, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (available on microfilm at the Library of Virginia, Accession 41008, Miscellaneous Reel 5092, frame 153)
- 1869 election in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the State Senate of Virginia, held July 6, 1869," 10
Secondary Sources
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 470, 479–480, 484
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 347 (third quotation)
Newspapers
- Richmond Dispatch, February 3, 1868 (second quotation)
- Washington, D.C., New National Era, January 26, 1871 (Teamoh's speech against the whipping post)
- Richmond Daily Whig, February 20, 1871 (Teamoh's letter to the Norfolk Virginian)
- Petersburg Index, March 18, 1871
- Teamoh to John Wesley Cromwell in Washington, D.C., People's Advocate, August 16, 1879
- Richmond Planet, December 30, 1899 (possibly indicating that Teamoh was then still living)
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