Petition #11481713

Abstract

Twenty petitioners argue that slave owners should be permitted to free their slaves on "terms which will not involve them, nor their estates, for their maintenance." They further propose the propriety of passing a law that would declare that "all the descendants of slaves, which may be born after the passing of the law, shall be free at a certain age which your honourable Body ... may fix upon."

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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

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