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==American Revolution==
==American Revolution==
==New Nation==
==New Nation==
The free black population grew rapidly during 1771-1815. Before the American Revolution the increase in the free black population was due mainly to local emancipations, natural population increase, and migration from rural areas. During and after the Revolution, however, there were additional ways to become free, including petitions and lawsuits, the 1782 manumission act, self-purchase, purchase by already free blacks, and individual emancipation. Fear of free blacks in an age of black revolts, however, prompted whites to impose restrictions on manumission and migration and ultimately to revert to the colonial-era policy of expelling free blacks from Virginia.<ref> Nicholls, Michael L. Strangers Setting Among Us: The Sources And Challenge Of The Urban Free Black Population Of Early Virginia. Virginia Magazine Of History And Biography 2000 108(2): 155-179. 0042-6636 </ref>
==Civil War and Reconstruction==
==Civil War and Reconstruction==
==New South 1877-1913==
==New South 1877-1913==