I read that somewhere to. But either it was ignored or it did not apply to all free blacks. With Louis Dixon's early history in the county I cannot see the people there allowing such an injustice to him. He was raised with the white and Indian children there in the 1820s, everyone knew and respected him. Most of those laws were written by outsiders (slave owners with large holdings that came from the Tide Water, Carolinas and Georgia) when the State was being populated.