The Manumission Society of Tennessee, at its eleventh annual convention, begs leave to “call attention of your Honorable body to the ammelioration of the condition of our degraded Slave population.” The Society therefore prays first “for the passage of a law to prevent the Seperation of Husband and Wife”; second for the proclamation “of a free birth to all children of Colour born after a Certain date”; and “third we pray that when Slaves are [offered] for Emmancipation and in the Opinion of the court there is no danger to result to the county that they may be Emmancipated without [embarrassing] the master.”
Result: Propositions and grievances: tabled.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
