Charles Fisher Norris (Hinds County)
State House: 1870-1871
Died: c. 1892
Barber. Served on the Freedmen’s Bureau court of arbitration in Clinton in 1867. Elected doorkeeper of the 1868 state constitutional convention. Private in the local militia.
When he was enslaved, he was known as Charley Fisher, and he was the subject of a major court case under the Fugitive Slave Act in Leavenworth, KS; many thanks to Bobbie Athon from the Kansas Historical Society for that connecting info.
Links:
The Kidnapping of Charley Fisher: Questioning the Legal Bounds of Slavery in Bleeding Kansas, article by Kristen Epps
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