11000014https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11000014MississippiUnknownCounty009999unknown000125Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MississippiWilliam Moreton and his wife, Violet, were emancipated by Jesse Carter in Louisiana about 1814. The Moretons left their daughter, Charlotte, in the possession of Carter, as a slave for life. After Carter's death, the couple bought Charlotte for $352. Moreton now petitions to free his daughter. He writes, "Your Petitioner although' a colored man is not devoid of feelings of humanity and nature & considers it against the laws of nature to hold his own offspring in a state of servitude."Purchased own family (FPOC)owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slaveEnslaver (FPOC)Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)Frees own family (FPOC)Family separated (Black)Family kept together (Black)