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Subject:	Re: Free Blacks in the Slave State of Virginia
From:	James Hershman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:05:12 -0500
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The census listed the Free Black population of North Carolina at a little
over 7000 in 1800 and little over 10,000 in 1810. Though the numbers didn't
increase as greatly as in VA, the same factors were at work in the Tar Heel
State. An interesting fact is that Free Black male property owners had the
right to vote in North Carolina until 1835. Its revocation illustrated the
rising tide of 19th century racism trumping the democratic impulse of the
Revolutionary era.

Jim Hershman


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Paul Heinegg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Paul Finkelman wrote:
> although there were VERY VERY few of them. The estimate of free blacks in
> 1780 is about 2,000
>
> We should also consider that in 1790 nearly the entire "other free"
> population of North Carolina originated in Virginia, many living just
> across the state line in Hertford, Northampton, Halifax, and Granville
> counties. Most of these free families owned their own land and were on good
> terms with neighboring white farmers. About eight percent of the free
> population of Northampton County, N.C., were "other free" persons in
> 1800-1810. This could not have gone unnoticed in the white and slave
> communities in adjoining Virginia counties.
>
> "Coloured" Doctor Thomas Stewart, a wealthy slaveowner of Dinwiddie
> County, was mentioned in the Virginia Gazette in 1784, and Jacob Chavis
> owned over 1,000 acres in Mecklenburg County in 1765. In 1719 a white
> worker on the plantation of Samuel Harwood, Jr., of Charles City County
> deposed that a runaway "Mallatto Man Slave" named Jack had made it all the
> way to South Carolina where he went by the name of John Bunch, a free
> African American landowner from the New Kent County area.
> Paul
>
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