Frederick Shumpert represents that, on the 27 August 1825, his "negroe man Jim (or James Wilson)" agreed "to purchase himself of y'r Petr at the sum of five hundred dollars." Shumpert reports that the said Jim "has paid and secured to be paid the said sum of money" and that he "is desirous of manumitting the said Jim," upon the terms “that the said Jim should leave the state within a reasonable time and he has stated the same to the said Jim, who has agreed thereto.” The petitioner notes, however, that "owing to the existing laws of this state, without the assent of y'r Honorable body he is unable to do so." Shumpert therefore prays "your Honorable body to pass an act enabling him to manumit enfranchise and set free the said Jim or James Wilson upon his leaving the state within a reasonable time."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
