Question: Where were the free people of color located in the US state having as a senator the candidate going on to win the South Carolina primary in 1860?

<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> In the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, John Kerry defeated several Democratic rivals, including Sen. John Edwards (D-North Carolina. <P1-S1> ), former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and retired Army General Wesley Clark. <P1-S2> His victory in the Iowa caucuses is widely believed to be the tipping point where Kerry revived his sagging campaign in New Hampshire and the February 3, 2004, primary states like Arizona, South Carolina and New Mexico. <P1-S3> Kerry then went on to win landslide victories in Nevada and Wisconsin. <P1-S4> Kerry thus won the Democratic nomination to run for President of the United States against incumbent George W. Bush. <P1-S5> On July 6, 2004, he announced his selection of John Edwards as his running mate. <P1-S6> Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, who was Kerry's 2004 campaign adviser, wrote an article in Time magazine claiming that after the election, Kerry had said that he wished he'd never picked Edwards, and that the two have since stopped speaking to each other. <P1-S7> In a subsequent appearance on ABC's This Week, Kerry refused to respond to Shrum's allegation, calling it a "ridiculous waste of time." <SEP> <P2-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. <P2-S1> They lived and worked chiefly on plantations in the eastern Tidewater. <P2-S2> In addition, 30,463 free people of color lived in the state. <P2-S3> 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. <P2-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. <P2-S5> Southern slave codes criminalized willful killing of a slave in most cases. <SEP> <P3-S0> in the colonial years, while conditions were more fluid, white women, indentured servant or free, and african men, servant, slave or free, made unions. <P3-S1> because the women were free, their mixed-race children were born free; they and their descendants formed most of the families of free people of color during the colonial period in virginia. <P3-S2> the scholar paul heinegg found that eighty percent of the free people of color in north carolina in censuses from 1790–1810 could be traced to families free in virginia in colonial years. <SEP> <P4-S0> The following week, John Edwards won the South Carolina primary and finished a strong second in Oklahoma to Clark. <P4-S1> Lieberman dropped out of the campaign the following day. <P4-S2> Kerry dominated throughout February and his support quickly snowballed as he won caucuses and primaries, taking in a string of wins in Michigan, Washington, Maine, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., Nevada, Wisconsin, Utah, Hawaii, and Idaho. <P4-S3> Clark and Dean dropped out during this time, leaving Edwards as the only real threat to Kerry. <P4-S4> Kucinich and Sharpton continued to run despite poor results at the polls.