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== '''Mississippi Cohabitation Records''' ==
=== '''Mississippi State Law''' ===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Sec. 3 Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes, who do now and have heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married, and the issue shall be taken and held as legitimate for all purposes. <ref name="Mississippi State Law">White, Barnetta McGhee, Ph.D.,'''''Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in N.C. County by County.'''''(Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co.), 1995.<br>




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