Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rica Black, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Rica Black registered to vote in Freestone County on November 20, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Rica Black
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rica Black
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Black in Freestone County
- William Blackborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Blacks elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 37 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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