Question: Where were the free people of color located in 1860 in the US state bordering to the east the death state of the performer of Hello Love?

<P0-S0> after the defeat of the confederacy, federal forces remained in charleston during the city's reconstruction. <P0-S1> the war had shattered the prosperity of the antebellum city. <P0-S2> freed slaves were faced with poverty and discrimination, but a large community of free people of color had been well-established in the city before the war and became the leaders of the postwar republican party and its legislators. <P0-S3> men who had been free people of color before the war comprised 26% of those elected to state and federal office in south carolina from 1868 to 1876. <SEP> <P1-S0> His first release in the United States, "Marriage Vow" climbed to number ten on the country charts in the fall of 1949; However, it wasn't until he was invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950 that he gained serious significance in the United States. <P1-S1> His second release in early 1950, "I'm Moving On" was the first of seven number 1 hits on the country charts. <P1-S2> "I'm Moving On" stayed at the top for 21 weeks, setting the all-time record for most weeks at number 1. <P1-S3> Snow moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1949, and "Hank Snow, the Singing Ranger" (modified from his earlier nickname, the Yodeling Ranger), began recording for RCA Victor in the United States in 1949. <SEP> <P2-S0> Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. <P2-S1> Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. <P2-S2> Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. <P2-S3> The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. <P2-S4> Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 601,222. <P2-S5> Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 653,450. <SEP> <P3-S0> besides slaves, there were a number of free people of color in the state. <P3-S1> most were descended from free african americans who had migrated along with neighbors from virginia during the 18th century. <P3-S2> the majority were the descendants of unions in the working classes between white women, indentured servants or free, and african men, indentured, slave or free. <P3-S3> after the revolution, quakers and mennonites worked to persuade slaveholders to free their slaves. <P3-S4> some were inspired by their efforts and the language of the revolution to arrange for manumission of their slaves. <P3-S5> the number of free people of color rose markedly in the first couple of decades after the revolution. <SEP> <P4-S0> "Hello Love" was Snow's seventh and final number one on the U.S. country singles chart, and his first number one in twelve years. <P4-S1> "Hello Love" is a 1974 single by Hank Snow. <P4-S2> The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten weeks on the chart. <SEP> <P5-S0> While slaveholding was slightly less concentrated than in some Southern states, according to the 1860 census, more than 330,000 people, or 33% of the population of 992,622, were enslaved African Americans. <P5-S1> They lived and worked chiefly on plantations in the eastern Tidewater. <P5-S2> They were also concentrated in the eastern coastal plain, especially at port cities such as Wilmington and New Bern, where a variety of jobs were available. <P5-S3> In addition, 30,463 free people of color lived in the state. <P5-S4> Free African Americans were allowed to vote until 1835, when the state revoked their suffrage in restrictions following the slave rebellion of 1831 led by Nat Turner. <P5-S5> Southern slave codes criminalized willful killing of a slave in most cases.