Seventy-nine citizens of Clark County write in behalf of "General" John Harkins, an elderly free man of color who had purchased his freedom. They ask "that the Legislature may exempt him from the operation of any law they may pass requiring the free negroes of this State to emigrate, or be sold into slavery." They assert that "no good can result to us, who are effected (if any body be effected) by his residence here, by his emigration or his sale into slavery, while much harm may be done the negro."
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Repository: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi
