Isaac Frazier, "the owner of a boy named Richard between the age of eight and nine years," declares that said child "is so white as with difficulty to be known as a person of color." Frazier further states that he "never contemplated keeping him as slave, but on the other hand always intended his emancipation." Noting that "in which design he has been defeated by the late act of the honorable Legislature," the petitioner prays "your honble body to emancipate the said slave by a special act."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina