In 1801, a law was passed that required lists of African Americans who were free to be submitted annually along with lists of taxable property. These "Free Negro Lists" included name, gender, residence, and occupation of individuals.
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Thus the free Negro population of the North was largely black. In 1850, when the United States census Elrst distinguished between blacks and mulattoes-meaning ...
negro or mulatto woman was of course free. By way of summary, the free negro element in Mississippi could be legally recruited by emancipation within the state ...
Free African Americans were required to register themselves. The resulting lists, known as “Free Negro Registers,” often note whether an individual was born ...