20586102https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20586102FloridaJacksonCounty2231861Circuit000granted011Florida State Archives, Tallahassee, FloridaHenry Reed, a free person of color, asks to be enslaved. Reed represents that "he is of African descent, a free person of Color over the age of fourteen years," and that he "is tired of liberty and its ills and inconveniences." He has selected Sidney S. Alderman to be his master and asks the court to approve the appointment.Voluntary enslavement