Seventy-three students at the University of North Carolina support freeing Sam Morphis, who "has been well known to them as a faithful and respectful servant." The students, residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Texas, cite that "this is the first petition which has ever been presented to you from the students of your University” and that they “entertain high hopes that a consideration of the subject will prevail with the General Assembly to emancipate the aforesaid Sam Morphis.”
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
