Mobile authorities issued slave permits allowing slaves to live on their own in the city of Mobile. The number of slaves who lived as free in Mobile is not known. Federal census records list some slaves who were living as free as heads of households. For further information, see Christopher A. Nordmann, “Free Negroes in Mobile County, Alabama” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama, 1990), 49-54, available on my website.
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