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:
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> Greetings all,
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> 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.
>
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>
> Stay Safe and Well!
>
>
> Karen E. Sutton
>
>
> Karen E. Sutton, Ph.D.
>
> Class of Fall 2021
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> Dept of History/Geography, Museum
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> Studies and Historic Preservation
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> Morgan State University
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> Baltimore, MD 21251
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