In 1860, the population of Arkansas was 435,450. Of those, 111,115 were enslaved people and 144 were free Blacks. The free Black population is believed to have been close to 700 a few years earlier, but in 1859 the Arkansas General Assembly passed an act banning manumission (the freeing of slaves), expelling free Blacks from Arkansas, and threatening them with enslavement if they remained.
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