Slave owner William Johnson, having previously freed a female slave named Amey in Louisiana, now seeks to free Amey's son, William. Johnson asks the legislature for permission "to make that disposition of his property most agreeable to his feelings & consonant to humanity." He adds that emancipation will "give that Liberty to a human being which all are entitled to as a Birthright, & extend the hand of humanity to a rational creature, on whom unfortunately Complexion, Custom & even Law in this Land of Freedom, has conspired to rivet the fetters of Slavery."
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Repository: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi
