North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : State v Chavers, December 1857 [printed].

The defendant was charged, as a free person of color, with carrying a shotgun. Defence counsel tried to show that he was a free white person. Statute forbidding carrying arms specified free negroes. The Revised Code chapter 107, section 79 stated that a person had to have less than one-sixteenth par...

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Corporate Author:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery, abolition & social justice.
Subjects:	Black people > Race identity Court records Firearms Freed persons Law Racially mixed people North Carolina > Brunswick County
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