The difference, of course, is that Missouri was a slave state.  Free blacks
sensibly preferred states where they didn't have to hold free papers.

Harold S. Forsythe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Carter Braxton the Signer


> Re: Why would free persons of color born in Virginia be in Hannibal,
> Missouri in 1850?  And when would they have come there?
>
> Not so unusual: think of the freed Hemingses who went to Ohio in the
> 1830s.
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