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July 18, 1851
The Liberator
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
What is this article about?
Rockingham County Court in Virginia resolved on Tuesday to compel free blacks without legal privileges to leave the county immediately and prohibit registrations from other counties, arguing their presence harms the slave population.
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Free Negroes.—The County Court of Rockingham, on Tuesday, adopted some stringent provisions with regard to our free black population. They resolved to compel all of that class who are not privileged by law to remain in the county to remove at once; and to permit none coming from other counties to register here. One's sympathies and feelings are involuntarily enlisted in behalf of these degraded beings; yet their presence in our midst is evidently working incalculable evil to the slave population amongst us, and their removal is therefore called for by every motive of self-preservation.—Rockingham (Va.) Register.
What sub-type of article is it?
Legal Or Court
Slave Related
What keywords are associated?
Free Negroes
Rockingham County
Removal Order
Slave Population
Where did it happen?
Rockingham (Va.)
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Rockingham (Va.)
Event Date
On Tuesday
Outcome
compel removal of free blacks not privileged by law; prohibit new registrations from other counties.
Event Details
The County Court of Rockingham adopted stringent provisions to force free black population without legal privileges to remove at once and to permit none from other counties to register.