Davy Crockett

I've never liked the man, and I still don't, but given the tightening legal environment -- renewed efforts to wish away the existence of free blacks by restricting their movements, by treating them as equal to slaves in various laws, by casting them as "outside the laws" if they didn't leave the state -- this seems like the right thing to do, regardless of what the relief in question may have entailed.

The last line on a page from the Tennessee Legislature's Journal from 1822 :