Eighteen-year-old free mulatto Lucy Andrews, the daughter of a slave and a white woman, requests that she and daughter Emily be made the slaves of W. Henry Duncan. She laments that "in her present status of Free person of Color, She is necessarily excluded from the Society, protection, support & direction of the white class, and at the same time she is deprived of all social intercourse with the slave population." Considering her condition to be "an isolated and helpless one," Andrews reports that she has lived "in the family of W. Henry Duncan ... upon his plantation for the last four years enjoying his protection & support & she is satisfied that it would be best for her to become his slave & thus secure to herself the benefit of a Master, protector & friend." The petitioner therefore prays "that she & her child Emily be made the Slaves of the said W. Henry Duncan."
Result: Bill drawn, not enacted into law.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
