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The 1860 Census indicates that the statement in the article- "Mississippi law forbade the manumission of slaves" -is not true.
“Manumission of Slaves.
With regard to manumission, it appears from the returns that during the census year, they numbered a little more than 3,000, being more than double the number who were liberated in 1850….Great irregularity, as might naturally be expected, appears to exist for the two periods whereof we have returns on this subject. By the Eighth Census [1860], it appears that manumissions have greatly increased in number in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee…”
-Introduction to 1860 Census Report, page xv. [1]
Table 4 shows 182 manumissions for Mississippi during the year 1860- http://www.archive.org/stream/preliminaryrepor00inunit#page/137/mode/1up — Preceding unsigned comment added by BorderRuffian ( talk • contribs) 13:38, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
References
Several of the sources attributed to claims in this article do not connect the reader to any source that supports the claim being made.
In this article it states the year was 1994 but in the podcast Uncivil, Myra Chandler Sampson, Silas's great-granddaughter, says it happened in 2003. There is no source for that sentence in this article.
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The 1860 Census indicates that the statement in the article- "Mississippi law forbade the manumission of slaves" -is not true.
“Manumission of Slaves.
With regard to manumission, it appears from the returns that during the census year, they numbered a little more than 3,000, being more than double the number who were liberated in 1850….Great irregularity, as might naturally be expected, appears to exist for the two periods whereof we have returns on this subject. By the Eighth Census [1860], it appears that manumissions have greatly increased in number in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee…”
-Introduction to 1860 Census Report, page xv. [1]
Table 4 shows 182 manumissions for Mississippi during the year 1860- http://www.archive.org/stream/preliminaryrepor00inunit#page/137/mode/1up — Preceding unsigned comment added by BorderRuffian ( talk • contribs) 13:38, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
References
Several of the sources attributed to claims in this article do not connect the reader to any source that supports the claim being made.
In this article it states the year was 1994 but in the podcast Uncivil, Myra Chandler Sampson, Silas's great-granddaughter, says it happened in 2003. There is no source for that sentence in this article.