Petition #20783409

Abstract

Marshall, a term slave, asks that he be granted "the privilege to sue as a poor person vs one Zed Gozee." Marshall asserts that Gozee is holding him "as a slave for life," which is contrary to the conditions stipulated in Andrew Linn's will; Linn directed that Marshall be free after completing a 10-year term of servitude. Since Linn's death, Marshall states that "his earnings have gone to his several masters," leaving him unable to pay the expenses of a suit. He states that he "must and will Suffer great injury and verily believes he will finally loose his liberty forever" unless he is allowed to sue as a poor person.

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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky

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