[antinomian]

And yet the 1860 census counted 7628 of them living there, more than the free black populations of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia combined. Some southern states had laws that forced freed slaves to leave the state or be returned to slavery.

Those laws were not enforced. They were enacted during the period when the northern states were trying to eliminate their own black populations through structures manumission laws.

And the free black numbers in the census are known to be bogus. Free black men listed their wives and children as slaves for legal reasons.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Those laws were not enforced.

Neither were Illinois', apparently.

They were enacted during the period when the northern states were trying to eliminate their own black populations through structures manumission laws.

What are "structures manumission laws"?

And the free black numbers in the census are known to be bogus. Free black men listed their wives and children as slaves for legal reasons.

A) Source?
B) What legal reasons would those be? The not-enforced laws demanding freed blacks leave the state?

[Non-Sequitur]

Those laws were not enforced.

But of course they were rigidly enforced in Northern states, huh?

They were enacted during the period when the northern states were trying to eliminate their own black populations through structures manumission laws.

How would those affect Southern states? Virginia passed a law, later incorportated into their state constitution, that said a slave freed in Virginia had 12 months in which to leave the commonwealth or else be sold back into slavery. Now how could anything that a Northern state did require a law like that on Virginia's books?

And the free black numbers in the census are known to be bogus. Free black men listed their wives and children as slaves for legal reasons.

You're making this stuff up as you go along, aren't you?