1858: “Public policy has made it necessary for the slaveholding States, by statute, to impose other restrictions on free persons of color. . . . to deny to them the privilege of bearing arms”

An Inquiry Into The Law Of Negro Slavery In The United States of America, “Public policy has made it necessary for the slaveholding States, by statute, to impose other restrictions on free persons of color. They have been forced to extend over them their patrol and police regulations, to deny to them the privilege of bearing arms”, 1858