Free negroes, number in Virginia at close of Revolution, [42];
rapid increase of, under statutes permitting emancipations, [42];
compelled to leave state within twelve months after emancipation, [43];
their handicap in slave communities, [161];
their treatment at the North, prior to 1860, [160];
statutes of various Northern States restrict them from becoming residents thereof, [168]-[170];
dread of their presence, as residents, on the part of Northern people, [170], [171].
Fugitives from justice, provision of constitution referring to, [195];
decision of Supreme Court construing same, [208].
Fugitive slaves, their owners could gain nothing by Virginia's secession, [209].