Fifty-one Sampson County residents condemn free blacks as a "perfect Nuisance, to civilized Society." They decry that "the free Negroes, and mulatoes living amongst us ... hold themselves a grade above the slave population and attempt in divers ways to equalize themselves with the white population." They further charge that said "course of procedures, and their communications with the slave population, renders them (the slaves) disposed to be disobedient and turbulent." The petitioners therefore propose that the legislature pass "such caustic laws as to compel them to emigrate, or by rasing a fund by taxing them, to be appropriated to their collonization in Africa, or by petition to the general Government for a location for them in the far West."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
