Except that "free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of
Years, and excluding Indians not taxed," counted as a full person, so I
assume that would mean free blacks as well.  Free blacks are certainly
enumerated in the same schedules as free white people in the federal census.

Gregg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Pemberton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:11 PM
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Subject: Re: black master


The use of the census was to establish the population for representation
purposes. A free black man or a slave was counted as 3/5 of a person. A
white person would be a 5/5 person, so having more mixed blood folks going
down on the census as white would increase the number of representatives the
state could send to Congress. Where might the loyalties of the census takers
have lied?

                                 Anne

At 09:54 AM 2/28/03 -0500, you wrote:
>So could census takers erroneously characterize some white freemen as
>black freemen?  Seems unlikely to me, but I guess possible. It would
>seem that the opposite might be true, however, thereby understating the
>level of free blacks.
>
>JDS
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