Recognizing that Erin is an expert in North Carolina free persons, I defer to her statement and simply want to add that there were a multitude of situations in the Northwest Territories, where free blacks and freed blacks that had migrated from the early colonies, were living aside one another, equally and harmoniously, in black settlements established prior to 1860. Their families intermarried with one another. I think Art Thomas would agree. I want to thank Afrigeneas for moving this discussion and thus allowing the free flow of ideals, while not inhibiting the ability to continue to learn on the FPOC forum.