Lillburn Pleasants represents that he was "charged with felony ... & condemned to be hung" in 1833. He further states that said sentence was later "reprived for transportation & sale." Pleasants asserts that "at the time of the trial ... he was about the age of twenty five years & bound to serve until he should arrive at the age of thirty" and that said court "tried, convicted & condemned him as a slave for life." He also declares that he had "no power or legal authority to engage the services of counsel to advise & defend him." The petitioner "cannot suppose that it is the purpose of the Commonwealth, to make him a slave for life." He avows that "he has committed no offence authorizing so harsh a punishment & there is no law that justifies its infliction." Pleasants therefore prays "of your Honorable body to grant him a pardon."
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
