This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson (Free Black) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HBC.2ACI/243.1 Message Board Post: Hello: ILooking for data on James Jackso who was born in Surry,Co. Virginia in about 1814.I have a document from Campbell Co. Va. issued on 12 May,1851( that I am researching) which described James Jackson's as a "Free Black" and "decendant of a femalenegro emancipated in 1800,etc.The document has official seals and signatures, and I am told was carried at all times by Mr. Jackson, to prove that he was "Free". Not to do so would risk being sold as a Slave. Can anyone help with firther data?? Thanks, Frank"