Twenty-one-year-old Lucy Andrews petitions the legislature to enact a law making her and her two children, Emily and Robbin, the slaves of H. H. Duncan. She reports that she and her children have lived on the plantation for six years, and her husband, Robbin, is a slave belonging to Duncan. Before making her home on the Duncan plantation, Andrews states that she "had no permanent place of abode being necessitated to shift from place to place, and from time to time, in order to procure a livelihood.” The petitioner, “in view of the threatened difficulties in these times of scarcity of provisions and clothing and the consequent high prices of the same," therefore prays that an act be passed “making her (Lucy Andrews) and her two children Emily and Robbin slaves and the property of H. H. Duncan, so that she and her said children may have a permanent Home."
Result: Postponed.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
