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2 unusual facts about Free people of color


Albany, Ohio

free blacks, many of whom had migrated from the Upper South, settled the village in the mid-19th century.

Free people of color

Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law on June 14, 2013, Act 276, creating the "prestige" license plate, "I'm Creole," honoring Louisiana Creoles' contributions and heritage.


Henry Berry Lowrie

Several Lowrie cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color (also called free blacks), had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina.


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