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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:56:53 EST
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- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: i'm curious...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
- 22 Jan 1993 13:59:13 -0500 from <pschwarz@CABELL.V CU.EDU>
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- On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:59:13 -0500 Philip J. Schwarz said:
- >>
- >> On Mon, 18 Jan 1993 16:36:00 EST Tom Powers said:
- >> >a free black who bought his wife and kept her legally his slave because
- >> >she would be better protected that way than if he manumitted her from
- >> >a black plantation owner.
- >>
- >> There have been several messages to this effect. Can we have a little more
- >> context, please? It isn't obvious why a manumitted slave would be in more
- >> danger than the free black who freed him/her, even considering any "grand-
- >> fathering" inserted into laws of slave-holding states.
- >>
- >Limited "context"--i.e., the Virginia context. From 1806 to 1816,
- >any emancipated person had 12 months to leave the state. Even after
- >1816, permission had to be sought from a court to remain. Under
-
- Just so--and just what is puzzling me. I wouldn't expect a court to let one
- remain in the state very often. As time passes, I would expect to see a lower
- and lower incidence of free blacks in Virginia, and a lower and lower
- occurrence of black slaveholders. Is this the case?
-