Here is a copy of a Mobile ordinance that required free Negroes to register with local authorities. The only evidence I have found of Mobile County free people of color registering was a list of names published in the Mobile Commercial Register, May 15, 1830. That list contains only 48 names.
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CategoriesAuthorI am a professional genealogist specializing in tracing the lives of African Americans. I earned my Ph.D. in history from the University of Alabama. |