11286202https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11286202North CarolinaWakeCounty1862Archivesrejected022North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaSally Scott, a twenty-two-year-old free woman of color and mother of nine-month-old John, confesses "that she is tired of being free -- that she finds it difficult to support herself and is desirous of having a master." She therefore prays "that by Resolution of this body she and her son shall be enslaved, and that Sidney A. Hinton of Wake County may be declared her master." Voluntary enslavementCivil War, impact of