New Lisbon (OH) Anti-Slavery Bugle, "Stampede of Negroes from South Carolina," November 17, 1860

STAMPEDE OF NEGROES FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.––A law has recently been passed in South Carolina, requiring all free colored persons to wear a badge of distinction. This many of the colored families living in Charleston deemed an indignity; and some have left the State in consequence of it. They have come North, and it is stated that about eighty families have arrived in Philadelphia. Most of these have means which place them above poverty. They are generally mulattoes of various shades of lightness.––Leader.