Thomas Bullock executed his will in 1834. He stipulated therein that "all my Slaves that have arrived at the age of twenty one years at my death shall have the privilege of going to Liberia or Some place of freedom out of the bounds of these United States;" all slaves younger than twenty-one were to be given the same choice when they became adults. Rachel Bell, one of Bullock's slaves who recently turned twenty-one, charges that William Bullock wrongfully sold her and her son to Archibald Williams, "a trader and dealer in slaves for a liveyhood," who purchased her and her son "as slaves for life and with the avowed intention of taking them to some one of the Southern cotton planting or Sugar growing states." Bell sues Archibald Williams and others for freedom and seeks a restraining order to prevent her and her son's removal from the county.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
