Check out this article. Especially page 29, last paragraph:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1407&context=law_facultyscholarship
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> On May 27, 2022, at 1:57 PM, RONALD CORNWELL <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> It sounds like they are removing on their own
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On May 27, 2022, at 10:05 AM, ANNIE MABRY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Karen:
>> Is this information a transcription? And if so, can you refer us to the original document? There appears to be some missing words.
>>
>> With the current information provided, it’s difficult to interpret. There are several ‘Laws’ that come to mind regarding the ‘removal of free blacks’ during that era.
>> Thank you for any clarification,
>>
>> Annie S. Mabry
>> (303) 263-6746 - Mobile
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>>>> On May 27, 2022, at 8:52 AM, Karen Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> Please take a moment to read this paragraph, and let me know what you
>>> think. It is a quotation from a Northumberland County, VA Order Book.
>>> Question: Please tell me what this entry says to you? Do you think the free
>>> blacks wanted to leave or were forced to leave?
>>>
>>> “October 14, 1850”
>>> It appearing to this court by satisfactory evidence that there are a number
>>> of free negroes about to removed from this county out of the commonwealth
>>> of Va. at their own coast and whence by our making appropriations for the
>>> removal of free persons of color and for other purposes passed the 11th.
>>> March 1850 which -------- directs that it shall be the duty of the county
>>> and cooperating courts to charge the legal tax for the seal of the court
>>> and ---- of every copy of registration by them to every free negro and to
>>> acco. (accommodate) with the auditor of such tax being to raise a fund for
>>> the remova1 of free negroes out of this Commonwealth. Therefore the court
>>> dot direct its clerk: not to charge the tax aforesaid to any free negro who
>>> obtains his papers for the purpose of removing out of the Commonwealth at
>>> his or her own costs."
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Stay Safe and Well!
>>>
>>>
>>> Karen E. Sutton
>>>
>>>
>>> Karen E. Sutton, Ph.D.
>>>
>>> Class of Fall 2021
>>>
>>> Dept of History/Geography, Museum
>>>
>>> Studies and Historic Preservation
>>>
>>> Morgan State University
>>>
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>>>
>>> Baltimore, MD 21251
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