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=== Time Line ===
=== Time Line ===
1859 Arkansas law ordered free Negroes and mulattoes to leave the state by the end of the year or select a master "who must give bond not to allow such Negroes to act as free."
Free Negroes were to carry at all times his "free papers"(manumission) which gave his name and description and explained just how his freedom had been obtained.


=== Voting Registers  ===
=== Voting Registers  ===