I'm assuming that this is a family member you are searching for. I always follow the money.
Maybe this will help. Slavery ended in 1865. Former slaves will show up in the 1870 or 1880 census for the first time. If you could not find him in the 1860 or earlier census or city directories with him or her listed as a FPOC (free person of color) then most likely he was not.
As an African American research genealogy you will hit a brick wall at some point usually 1870. We don’t just run a family tree on our family but also on the possible or last owner to find information. So there is the possibility you might run a lot on just one family alone. Some last names where given by the military or they just picked a last name based on anything. Some took the last owners name or the name of some past owner. Now you have to find who the last owner was for clues to more information.
To get pass the brick wall you will have to:
1 take clues in your oral history
2 Eliminate the obvious last name. Curry by running a family tree on the family to see what slaves they owned, wills and etc.
3 check the freeman bank for clues
4 USCT
5 court records- Deeds, wills, sales, mortgages, dowers, partitions and etc.
6 change your thinking to the 1800's
7 Find his death record. Sometimes it will list his parents name but most just have unknow.
Slaves are value/money. You will have to follow the money trail.
You will have to always think of where is the money and how do I hide the money and how to make and keep the money.
I check some things on Ancestry and found that they are not listed before 1870. Also you might want to check a couple areas in your search Mongolia VA and Washington PA. It would seem as if they or the children moved there. Also someone has started a tree on this family and they might be able to help you and each other on this search. Maybe a new cousin.
Good Luck
Quan
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Exactly, now did Mack become a free black? I haven't found anything on Ancestry prior to the 1870 census for Mack and wife, Miranda.
m. preston
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> The question is have you located Mack Curry in any of the census
> records prior to 1870 such as 1860 and 1850..identified by name..this
> would mean he would have been classified as a "Free Black". At that
> point you would have to determine how he became Free..either by birth
> (meaning his mother was
> Free) or emancipated by Will or Deed.
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> Have you found him identified by name on a census or any other records
> prior to 1865.
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> Selma Stewart
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> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Mack CurryMack Curry, born 1824, and wife Miranda
> are listed on the 1870 census forPort Republic, Virginia.
> Blacks....living between mostly white familieson a street.By 1880 he
> was a land owner in Ashby District, Rockingham County.Mr. Curry must have been a free black.
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